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The musical drama is about ranchers and farmers in the early days of Texas' settlement in the 1880s. [1] [2] The major themes of the play are love, romance, and people's struggle against the environment. [3] The story's protagonist is Calvin Armstrong, a young homesteader from the East who seeks to make a living as a farmer in the Texas ...
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a 1982 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman.An adaptation of Ed Graczyk's 1976 play of the same name, the film stars Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Mark Patton, and Kathy Bates, all of whom reprise their roles from the 1982 Broadway production of the play which Altman also directed.
A William Hogarth painting based on The Beggar's Opera (c. 1728), a key antecedent of musical theatre. Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
The Promise is a musical drama with a book by Jan Dargatz (with additional dialogue by Chuck King) and lyrics and music by various songwriters (several arranged by Gary Rhodes and also by current Director Chuck King) based on biblical texts.
In Texas, ethnic Mexicans who had lived in the area for centuries, played a distinct style of conjunto, different from that played in Mexico. The influence of Czech polka music was a major distinguishing characteristic of this music, which gradually evolved into what is now known as norteño (Burr, 604).
Red dirt is a genre of country music that gets its name from the color of soil found in Oklahoma. Many red dirt acts got their start in bars surrounding Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, a city considered to be the center of red dirt music. The genre also extends to music made south of the Red River in Texas.
Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada.Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America.