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- Title
Der Thatcherismus und Andrew Lloyd Webbers Musicals.
- Authors
Eubanks Winkler, Amanda
- Abstract
This article delineates the key tenets of Thatcherism and considers the ways they might be enacted in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1980s oeuvre. The author focusses on three shows that have often been linked with Thatcherite aesthetics: "Cats" (1981), "Starlight Express" (1984), and "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986). The article demonstrates how the musical language and dramaturgy of these musicals participated in larger cultural discourses shaped by Thatcherism, discourses that lauded "traditional values" and a "glorious" British past, that bridled against elitism, and that shifted the perception of the role of government and the relationship between the individual and the state.
- Subjects
LLOYD Webber, Andrew, 1948-; THATCHER, Margaret, 1925-2013; MUSICALS; DRAMATIC structure; PHANTOM of the Opera, The (Play); AESTHETICS; STARLIGHT Express (Theatrical production); DISCOURSE; ELITISM; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 4, p817
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2022-0047