The Pop Musical: Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias

by Alberto Mira

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231191235
• ISBN13: 9780231191234
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"