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The Magic of Beverly Sills

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Description for The Magic of Beverly Sills Hardback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
With her superb coloratura soprano, passion for the world of opera, and down-to-earth personality, Beverly Sills made high art accessible to millions from the time of her meteoric rise to stardom in 1966 until her death in 2007. An unlikely pop culture phenomenon, Sills was equally at ease on talk shows, on the stage, and in the role of arts advocate and administrator. Merging archival research with her own love of Sills's music, Nancy Guy examines the singer-actress's artistry alongside the ineffable aspects of performance that earned Sills a passionate fandom. Guy mines the memories of colleagues, critics, and aficionados to recover something of the spell Sills wove for people on both sides of the footlights during the hot moments of onstage performance. At the same time, she analyzes essential questions raised by Sills's art and celebrity. How did Sills challenge the divide between elite and mass culture and build a fan base that crossed generations and socio-economic lines? Above all, how did Sills capture the unnameable magic that joins the members of an audience to a performer--and to one-another? Intimate and revealing, The Magic of Beverly Sills explores the alchemy of art, magnetism, community, and emotion that produced an American icon.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Music in American Life
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039737
SKU
V9780252039737
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About Nancy Guy
Nancy Guy is a professor of music at University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan.

Reviews for The Magic of Beverly Sills
"Beverly Sills came along at the perfect moment, quenching the public's thirst for a bona fide STAR. Now this book comes along at the perfect moment to quench this generation's thirst for insight into what made her shine so radiantly."
Joyce DiDonato "Guy's study goes well beyond the operatic stage or record studio to consider her subject's broad appeal and popularity."
ARSC Journal   "Guy's refreshing book offers a timely contrast between the cultural backdrop of the 20th century and that of the present… This is a captivating work on Sill's unique, spellbinding artistry. Highly recommended."
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