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Can't Help Singing
Gerald Mast
Paperback: 400 pages
Overlook Press; Rei edition
January 1, 1991
ISBN: 0879513624
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Mast covers both Broadway and film musicals and differentiates between them, offering explanations of the strengths and weaknesses of each milieu. He analyzes specific songs and covers biographical information on the great songwriters. Anyone interested in the art of popular song will value this book. Gerald Mast is the author of Short History of the Movies, The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies, Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience, The Movies in Our Midst and many others.
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