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Author:

Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

vi, 271 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Musicals--History and criticism
Rock music--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

MacDermot, Galt. Hair.
Trask, Stephen. Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780472115761 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472115766 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65425785

LCCN:

2006010056

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)