{"id":11193,"count":53,"description":"We have a wide range of interviews on music and drama.\u00a0 Emma Smith<\/a>, Stanley Wells<\/a> and Ren\u00e9 Weis<\/a> choose their best plays of Shakespeare.\u00a0 No single play is chosen by all three, although, five are chosen by two of our experts. Mark Nixon chooses his best Samuel Beckett Books<\/a> and Sos Eltis discusses Oscar Wilde<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Charles Isherwood looks at Broadway<\/a> and Michael Billington at 20th<\/sup> century theatre<\/a>.\u00a0 Florent Masse discusses French Theatre<\/a> and Slavoj Zizek choses his favourite plays<\/a>, including Sophocles, Shakespeare, Claudel Brecht and Beckett.\r\n\r\nMoving from the drama of the stage to that of the screen, we have Darren Aronofsky choosing his best books on making movies<\/a> and Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about filmmaking<\/a>.\u00a0 Barry Forshaw talks about Film Noir<\/a> and Andrew Sarris looks at film criticism<\/a>.\u00a0 Ian Christie chooses his best books on Russian cinema<\/a> and Brian Mcfarlane his on British cinema<\/a>.\u00a0 Marina Hyde looks at Hollywood<\/a> and Basil James and Adrian Kohler choose their best books on puppeteering<\/a>.\u00a0 Meanwhile Richard Walter talks screenwriting<\/a> and Matt Whitecross film directing<\/a>.\u00a0 Jane Root discusses where good ideas come from<\/a> and Woody Allen talks about the books that inspired him<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTurning to music, Igor Toronyi-Lalic chooses his best books on classical music<\/a> and Philip Vannini looks at the ethnography of music<\/a>.\u00a0 Andrew Grant chooses his best books on English church music<\/a>.\u00a0 Giles Swayne chooses his best books on the lives of classical composers<\/a>, Nikola Matisic<\/a> and Robert Lloyd<\/a> both choose their best books on Opera and Michael Tanner discusses Wagner<\/a>.\u00a0 Alex Ross talks about writing about music<\/a>.\u00a0 Menrig and Rachel Bowen choose their best music books for kids<\/a>.\r\n\r\nAt a more popular level, Keith Spera chooses his best books on the music of New Orleans<\/a>.\u00a0 Dorian Lynskey looks at protest songs<\/a> and Greil Marcus at rock music<\/a>.\u00a0 Keith Kahn Harris discusses heavy metal<\/a>.\u00a0 Susan Bordo chooses her best books on popular culture<\/a>.\r\n\r\nMusic Biographies<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/music-and-drama\/","name":"Music & Drama","slug":"music-and-drama","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11193"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11193"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}