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Studies in Musical Theatre 13.1 is now available! (Special Issue: Dance in Musical Theatre)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Studies in Musical Theatre 13.1 is now available! (Special Issue: Dance in Musical Theatre)

Intellect is pleased to announce that Studies in Musical Theatre 13.1 is now available! For more information about the issue, click here >> https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/smt/2019/00000013/00000001

 

Special Issue: ‘Dance in Musical Theatre’

 

Aim & Scope:

 

Studies in Musical Theatre provides a forum to debate a wide range of texts that articulate the musical together with the theatrical. This peer-reviewed journal brings together a variety of critical approaches to contribute to the discussion surrounding live performance, the development and form of musical theatre and its value as a cultural product in theory and practice. Here, you will find a wealth of writing encompassing everything from opera to film musical to pop video.

 

Issue 13.1

 

Editorial

 

Special Issue: Dance in musical theatre

JOANNA DEE DAS AND RYAN DONOVAN

 

Articles

 

Turns of ‘fate’: Jack Cole, jazz and Bharata Natyam in diasporic translation

ROHINI ACHARYA AND ERIC KAUFMAN

 

Allergies, allegiances and authenticity: Bill T. Jones’s choreography for Broadway

ARIEL NERESON

 

Sweeping gestures: Alberto Alonso and the revolutionary musical in Cuba

ELIZABETH SCHWALL

 

Dancing muses, roller disco and the phantasmagoric feminine: Reanimating Terpsichore in the movie musical Xanadu (1980)

PRIYA A. THOMAS

 

Choreographing conjoinment: Side Show’s fleshly fixations and disability simulation SAMUEL YATES

 

Re:Act 79–82 Deconstructing Fosse

JULIA L. FOULKES

 

Book Reviews

  • All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical ‘Chicago’, Ethan Mordden (2018)
  • Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical, Kevin Winkler (2018)
  • Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance, Anthea Kraut (2015)

 

For call for papers and general journal information, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-musical-theatre