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

Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-

The theater will rock a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth L. Wollman. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009, c2006. - vi, 271 p., [8] p. of plates.

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

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780472027002 (electronic bk.)




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


Electronic books.

ML1711.8.N3 / W65 2009

782.1/416609