Abstract
The musical did not suddenly burst on the small screen in the nineties, but generic, industrial, and aesthetic shifts in television, film, and theatre led to the cultivation of an environment that invited a renewed musicalization across television forms, one that transcended underscoring or musical montages and allowed a space for otherwise nonmusical characters (in established nonmusical worlds) to burst into diegetic song, and for the narrative worlds to momentarily become ones akin to the movie or stage musical where life is communicated through song. The last decade of the 20th century simply shined a light on the long union enjoyed between television and the musical. This article explores the perfect storm that encouraged a spate of one-off musical episodes of otherwise nonmusical fictional television shows at the turn of the 21st century.
Recommended Citation
Kessler, Kelly
(2015)
"Primetime Goes Hammerstein: The Musicalization of Primetime Fictional Television in the Post-Network Era,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.452
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol4/iss1/2