Hard times : the adult musical in 1970s New York City / Elizabeth L. Wollman.

By:

Wollman, Elizabeth L, 1969- [author.]

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199979417
0199979413
9780199968107
0199968101

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

792.609747109047 23

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ML1711.8.N3 W62 2013

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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.

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.

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'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.