all Products Performing Arts Theater

The Pop Musical: Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias

Mira, Alberto

Select Format

Print Book

Paperback

Item Condition New

$25.24 USD $25.24 USD

$25.24 USD

~~$25.24 USD~~ $25.24 USD

Sale Sold out

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Quantity

View full details

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 by the emergence of pop, the Hollywood musical has not gone extinct. Many Hollywood productions from the 1960s to the present have revisited the forms and conventions of the classic musical--except instead of drawing from showtunes and jazz standards, they employ the styles and iconography of pop.

Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing large-scale traditional musicals, different pop strains--disco, rock 'n' roll, doo-wop, glam, and hip-hop--renewed the genre, giving it a new life. While the classical musical presented a world light on conflict, defined by theatricality and where effortless talent can shine through, the introduction of pop spurred musicals to address contemporary social and political conditions. Mira traces the emergence of a new set of themes--such as the painful hard work depicted in Dirty Dancing (1987); the double-edged fandom of Velvet Goldmine (1998); and the racial politics of Dreamgirls (2006)--to explore why the Hollywood musical has found renewed relevance.

Accessories:

No Accessory

Publisher

WALLFLOWER PR

Bisac Major Subject

Performing Arts

Binding Type

Paperback

Country Of Origin

Number Of Units

Length

8.5 Inches

Barcode Indicator

EAN

Width

5.4 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

Height

0.9 Inches

ISBN 10

0231191235

Weight

0.45 Pounds

Book EAN

9780231191234

Target Audiance

Adults

User reviews will be displayed here...

Item added to your cart

The Pop Musical: Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias