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Author Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-

Title The theater will rock [electronic resource] : a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig / Elizabeth L. Wollman.

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

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 271 p., [8] p. of plates.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Musicals -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author MacDermot, Galt. Hair.
Trask, Stephen. Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0472115766 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472115761 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472034024 (paper)
9780472027002 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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