The rise and fall of the Broadway musical / Mark N. Grant.
Publication details: Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004.Description: x, 365 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 1555536239 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 782.1/4/097471 22
- ML1711.8.N3 G727 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.
From soaring divas to growling rockers : how changes in singing forged and felled the show tune -- How mavericks, highbrows, and enlightened collectivism invented the book and lyrics and tweaked the music -- Revolutions in Broadway rhythm : how the rock groove decomposed the musical and dismantled the fourth wall -- The loudspeakers are alive with the sound of music : how electronics trumped the artful acoustics of Broadway -- Wagging the musical : how director-choreographers co-opted a writer's medium -- The age of McMusicals : vaudeville redux.