The pop musical : sweat, tears, and tarnished utopias /

"After Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley's iron grip on the movie musical began to slip in the face of pop's cultural dominance, many believed that the musical genre entered a terminal decline and finally wore itself out by the 1980s. Though the industrial model of the musical was disrupted...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mira, Alberto (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Wallflower [2021]
Series:Short cuts (London, England)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mira19123
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Hollywood musical is dead. Long live the Hollywood musical!
  • Hollywood and the rise of pop music : the age of Elvis
  • Embracing pop : integrating the pop musical
  • Looking back : the pop musical and the past
  • Conclusion: Qualified joys.