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Can I read A Song in the Dark : the Birth of the Musical Film on EtoBox?
A Song in the Dark : the Birth of the Musical Film by Richard Barrios is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Song in the Dark : the Birth of the Musical Film about?
It was the most chaotic era in the history of American entertainment, possibly its most dynamic, and in some ways its least understood. In a stunningly brief time, as the Jazz Age roared to a close, the art of the silent film became extinct, thrown over in favor of the unknown, virtually untested medium of talking pictures. Leading the way was a brand new American art the movie musical. Taking off like a shot from day one, this new genre instantly became the a quintessential form of American entertainment. Here for the first time is the story of this fabulous, forgotten age when the movies learned to sing and dance. Chronicling the early musical film years from 1926 to 1934, A Song in the Dark offers a fascinating look at these innovative films, the product of much of the major experimentation that went on during the development of sound technology. Illuminating the entire evolution of this new sound medium, Richard Barrios shows how Hollywood, seeking to outdo Broadway and vaudeville, recruited both the famous and the unknown, the newest stars and the has-beens, the geniuses and the hustlers. The results were unlike anything the world had seen or backstage yarns, all-star revues,
Who reads A Song in the Dark : the Birth of the Musical Film?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Barrios
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195088106
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.39 / 5 (23 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14