FROM YOU I GET THE STORY: Tracking spirituality through the three iterations of The Who’s Tommy

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dc.contributor.advisorHarding, James Men_US
dc.contributor.authorMarsten, Medhaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-20T05:30:11Z
dc.date.available2020-07-20T05:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the late 1960s, Pete Townshend, lead guitarist and composer for British rock band The Who, discovered the teachings of Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba. Inspired by these teachings he wrote the concept album for the first successful rock opera: Tommy. The smashing success of this album led to its adaptation into a major Hollywood film directed by Ken Russell in 1975 and its adaptation into a Broadway musical directed by Des McAnuff in 1992. This thesis examines how each adaptation contributes to the Westernization, generalization, and sanitization of the spirituality inherent to the original concept album as well as how these adaptations reflect the conflicting objectives of their lead artists.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/egtk-wtjy
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26342
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFilmen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPerformanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRocken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTheatreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTommyen_US
dc.titleFROM YOU I GET THE STORY: Tracking spirituality through the three iterations of The Who’s Tommyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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