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October 2, 2026

Breaking into Song: Television Musicals from Glee to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

In a narrow sense, it’s about tv musicals, and music on television more generally. This may seem simplistic, but the combination of music and TV is both obvious and yet simultaneously unnoticed. I wanted to rectify that through this work, by not only looking at musical episodes/specials/series throughout US television history, but soundtracks, synergistic deals (eg, the WB network in the 1990s), and shows like Soul Train and American Bandstand that exposed viewers to music they might not have access to locally.

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August 15, 2011

Twilight of the Idols

Mark Lynn Anderson
Twilight of the Idols is ultimately a book about the central importance of deviance to the formation of American mass culture during the 1920s. Given our current media obsessions with unusual...
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