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The theater will rock : a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig / Elizabeth L. Wollman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wollman, Elizabeth Lara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--History and criticism.
- Musicals.
- Rock music--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Chronicles the rock musical's artistic and financial blockbusters--and bombs--from 1960 to the present.
- Contents:
- The birth of the rock musical in New York City
- Interlude 1: rock "authenticity" and the reception of the staged rock musical
- Hair and its imitators
- Interlude 2 : audiences
- Rock concept albums and the fragmented musical of the 1970s
- Interlude 3 : megamusicals
- Spectacles of the 1980s
- Interlude 4 : economics and marketing
- Rock musicians in the musical theater : the 1990s
- Interlude 5 : merging aesthetics, making performances
- Rock-influenced musicals at the millennium : the dawning of the age of
- the revival.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786612639241
- 9781282639249
- 1282639242
- 9780472027002
- 047202700X
- OCLC:
- 698586721
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