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.