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In the fourth edition of his architectural history Space, Time, and Architecture (1962), Siegfried Giedion added a section entitled ‘Confusion and Boredom’ in which he relates that, in the spring of 1961, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a symposium called ‘Modern Architecture, Death or Metamorphosis?’ (Giedion 1962, xvi). This question was one that, especially as the 1960s progressed, could equally be applied to the Hollywood musical, New York and to the relationship between the two. For the musical, the early 1960s were the low point of a slump that had begun in the mid-1950s, a sharp decline in the levels of production of the musical that also saw its departure from New York as a setting (see Appendix). In 1963, musicals constituted only four per cent of releases by major studios, and New York featured only in a brief sequence at the beginning of one musical released in that year, Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney, 1963).
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Shearer, M. (2016). Epilogue: Death or Metamorphosis?. In: New York City and the Hollywood Musical. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56937-0_7
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