You've Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the MusicalWestminster John Knox Press, 2005 M01 1 - 244 páginas Arguing that the musical is the "most ubiquitous and dominant cultural icon of our day," scholar Ian Bradley unpacks the theological significance of the musical. Bradley believes that musicals provide for many people "an experience which can genuinely be described as religious as well as entertaining." In addition, he offers his thoughts on what the popularity of the musical might mean for the future of the church. |
Contenido
Acknowledgements | 9 |
Introduction I | 25 |
So ends my dream the theology of Gilbert and Sullivan | 41 |
Til you find your dream the golden age of Broadway | 62 |
To dream the impossible dream the rhythm of life | 90 |
Any dream will do the biblical superstars of the 1970s | 108 |
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed Les Misérables | 145 |
Dreams dont die musicals of the last 25 years | 169 |
Catching Gods dream the message for the Church | 199 |
Notes | 232 |
Sources and acknowledgements | 241 |
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