On Streisand

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On Streisand is written by Ethan Mordden and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190651784 (ISBN 10) and 9780190651787 (ISBN 13).

She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic vocalism in which each song is like a miniature three-act play. And Streisand's films changed forever the ideal of how a movie star chooses roles, going from musicals to dramas to comedies, from period fare to ultra-modern tales, from Funny Girl to The Way We Were to Yentl.