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The theater will rock : a history of the rock musical, from Hair to Hedwig

Title: The theater will rock : a history of the rock musical, from Hair to Hedwig / Elizabeth L. Wollman.
Author: Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.

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Description

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

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Bibliography (note)

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.

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MWED 07-1405

ISBN

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

LCCN

2006010056

OCLC

65425785

Author

Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-

Title

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

Imprint

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.

Bibliography

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

Added Author

MacDermot, Galt. Hair.

Trask, Stephen. Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Research Call Number

MWED 07-1405

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