| Description |
1 online resource (x, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
'Hard Times' examines adult musicals as reflective of the socioeconomic mood of New York City in the 1970s, the socio-sexual mores of the country in the decade following the sexual revolution, and contemporary debates about obscenity and art. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Burlesque, Off Off Broadway, and the birth of the adult musical -- The birth of modern gay theater and the subtext of Company -- The post-Stonewall (and post-Company) gay musical -- The adult musical meets second-wave feminism : mod donna -- Not-so-angry feminist musicals -- Obscenity, "porno chic", and let my people come -- Hell freezes over : the hard-core musical on stage and screen -- Applying contemporary community standards : is it obscene, or merely lewd? -- New York's financial crisis and the adult musical on Broadway. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Broadway & Musical Revue.
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Musicals. (OCoLC)fst01030814
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Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
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New York (State) -- New York.
(OCoLC)fst01204333
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version 9780199747481 |
| ISBN |
9780199968107 (electronic bk.) |
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0199968101 (electronic bk.) |
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