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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785170203321

Autore

Wollman Elizabeth  Lara

Titolo

The theater will rock : a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig / / Elizabeth L. Wollman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2009, c2006

ISBN

1-282-63924-2

9786612639241

0-472-02700-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WollmanElizabeth Lara

Disciplina

782.1/416609

Soggetti

Musicals - History and criticism

Rock music - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.