{"product_id":"dueling-grounds-p-paperback","title":"Dueling Grounds P - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLodge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHamilton\u003c\/em\u003e opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda - who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role - adapted the show from Ron Chernow's biography \u003cem\u003eAlexander Hamilton\u003c\/em\u003e. Although it seems an unlikely source for a Broadway musical, Miranda found a liminal space where the life that Hamilton led and the issues that he confronted came alive more than two centuries later while also commenting on contemporary life in the United States and how we view our nation's history. With a score largely based on rap and drawing on other aspects of hip-hop culture, and staged with actors of color playing the white Founding Fathers, \u003cem\u003eHamilton\u003c\/em\u003e has much to say about race in the United States today and in our past, but at the same time it leaves important things insufficiently explained, such as the role of women and people of color in Hamilton's time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDueling Grounds: Revolution and Revelation in the Musical Hamilton \u003c\/em\u003eis a volume that combines the work of theater scholars and practitioners, musicologists, and scholars in such fields as ethnomusicology, history, gender studies, and economics in a multi-faceted approach to the show's varied uses of liminality, looking at its creation, casting philosophy, dance and movement, costuming, staging, direction, lyrics, music, marketing, and how aspects of race, gender, and class fit into the show and its production. Demonstrating that there is much to celebrate, as well as challenging issues to confront concerning \u003cem\u003eHamilton\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDueling Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e is an uncompromising look at one of the most important musicals of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Jo Lodge\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Theater at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and a performer, director, and choreographer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul R. Laird\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the Musical\u003c\/em\u003e (2002; 2nd edition, 2008, third edition 2017).\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.4 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47412577009842,"sku":"9780190938857","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/66b7d8d2d358a5fa873f590bb75b860c.webp?v=1778323635","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/dueling-grounds-p-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}