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Studies in Musical Theatre 14.1 is out now
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Studies in Musical Theatre 14.1 is out now

Studies in Musical Theatre 14.1 is out now! 

 

Special Issue: ‘Ethnography and Musical Theatre’

 

For more information about the special issue and journal, click here >> www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-musical-theatre

 

Aims & Scopes

 

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 14.1

 

Editorial

JUDAH M. COHEN AND JAKE JOHNSON

 

Articles

 

Ethnographic encounters and local musical theatre in the United States

STACY WOLF

 

Ethnography and the empathic imperative: Negotiating histories in the Sydney Brundibár Project

JOSEPH TOLTZ

 

The right to see and not be seen: South Korean musicals and young feminist activism

JIYOON JUNG

 

Thievery or giving back? The challenges and potentials of using theatre to disseminate ethnomusicological research

MONIQUE GIROUX

 

Miss Littlewood and me: Performing ethnography

MILLIE TAYLOR

 

Experimental recreation practices: Restaging Constança Capdeville’s musical theatre work Don’t, Juan

HELENA MARINHO, MÓNICA CHAMBEL, ALFONSO BENETTI AND LUÍS BITTENCOURT

 

‘To really trust [...] we had to be open with ourselves and each other’: Community building through Spring Awakening

JULIE K. HAGEN AND JENNIFER THOMAS

 

Performance Review

 

Ghost the Musical and La Jaula de las Locas (La Cage aux Folles), Madrid, Spain, October 2019

PAUL R. LAIRD

 

Book Reviews

 

The Cambridge Companion to Operetta, Anastasia Belina and Derek B. Scott (eds) (2020)

MEGAN WOLLER

 

Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers, Laura MacDonald and William A. Everett (eds) (2017)

ARIANNE JOHNSON QUINN

 

Boho Days: The Wider Works of Jonathan Larson, J. Collis (2018)

HANNAH ROBBINS

 

Music Direction for the Stage: A View from the Podium, Joseph Church (2015)

TONY CASTRO