Grant, Mark N.,  1952- <br/><br/>
The rise and fall of the Broadway musical / 
Mark N. Grant. 
 - Boston :  Northeastern University Press,  c2004. 
 - x, 365 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index. 
<br/><br/>From soaring divas to growling rockers : how changes in singing forged and felled the show tune -- How mavericks, highbrows, and enlightened collectivism invented the book and lyrics and tweaked the music -- Revolutions in Broadway rhythm : how the rock groove decomposed the musical and dismantled the fourth wall -- The loudspeakers are alive with the sound of music : how electronics trumped the artful acoustics of Broadway -- Wagging the musical : how director-choreographers co-opted a writer's medium -- The age of McMusicals : vaudeville redux. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1555536239 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004014100 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Musicals--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML1711.8.N3  / G727 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.1/4/097471