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Author:

Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-

Title:

Hard times : the adult musical in 1970s New York City / Elizabeth L. Wollman.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

x, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Musicals--New York--New York--20th century--History and criticism.
Theater--New York--New York--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-253) and index.

Contents:

Burlesque, Off Off Broadway, and the birth of the adult musical -- The birth of modern gay theater and the subtext of Company -- The post-Stonewall (and post-Company) gay musical -- The adult musical meets second-wave feminism : mod donna -- Not-so-angry feminist musicals -- Obscenity, "porno chic", and let my people come -- Hell freezes over : the hard-core musical on stage and screen -- Applying contemporary community standards : is it obscene, or merely lewd? -- New York's financial crisis and the adult musical on Broadway.

ISBN:

0199747482 (alk. paper)
9780199747481 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)775590870

LCCN:

2012002815

Locations:

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)