Monday, June 27, 2016 | |||
9:30 | Registration | Room | |
10:00 | Welcome | S95 | |
Session 1 | Rodgers and . . ., part 1 Bradford Conner, Chair |
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“Laughter on Tenth Avenue: Rodgers and Hart, Dwight Deere Wiman, and On Your Toes” Dominic Symonds, Lincoln University |
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“Treadmills, Planes, and Floating Bicycles: the Experimental Dances of Rodgers and Hart’s I Married an Angel (1938) Jim Steichen, Stanford University |
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“Tales of the South Pacific: Reviving Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Show in London and New York” Olaf Jubin, Regent's University London |
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11:45-12:00 | Break | ||
12:00-1:00 | Session 2 |
A. Dancing Renée Camus, Chair |
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“Dancing With the Broadcast” Emily Lane, Northwestern University |
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“Tap Dance on Screeen: from Stylistic Variability to Cinematic Creativity” Veronica Bochynek, University of Salzburg |
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B. Mexico and Musicals Michael Garber, Chair |
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“Revolution, Immigration, and Modernity as Viewed Through the Mexican Musical Revue in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s” John Koegel, California State University, Fullerton |
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“Robert W. Lerner’s Innovation and Tradition: the Viability of Musicals in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico” Emilio Mendez, National Autonomous University of Mexico |
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1:00-2:00 | Lunch | ||
2:00-3:00 | Session 3 |
A. Television and the Musical Jessica Sternfeld, Chair |
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“Convergence Culture and Networks of Participation in the Live Television Musical” Ryan Bunch, Rutgers University, Camden |
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“Sequins and Songs on the Small Screen: 1970s Television Variety Shows and the Popularization of the ‘BroadVegas’ Hybrid” Kelly Kessler, DePaul University |
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B. The Early Musical, part 1Ben Sears, Chair | S185 | ||
“Cinderella and the Muddled Middle: Performing the Paradox of Class Anxiety on the London Musical Stage, 1890-1914” Ben Macpherson, University of Portsmouth |
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“George M. Cohan’s Proto-‘Integrated’ Musicals” Elizabeth Titrington Craft, University of Utah |
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3:00-3:15 | Break | ||
3:15-3:45 | Session 4 | Library Collections Dominic McHugh, Chair | S95 |
“An Overview of The Billy Rose Theatre Division" Doug Reside, Curator, New York Public Library Theatre Division |
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"19th-Century Theatre Songs in the American Music Research Center" Thomas L. Riis, Director, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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4:00-5:00 | Session 5 | Keynote Address “Title of Keynote” Millie Taylor, University of Winchester |
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5:15- | Reception, The City College Music Department and Music in Gotham | ||
Tuesday, June 28 | |||
9:30-10:30 | Session 6 | Broadway and Children Robert Gordon, Chair |
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“Musical Theatre’s Backstage Diva and the Gendered Labor of U.S. Amateur Musical Theatre with Kids” Stacy Wolf, Princeton University |
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“‘The Year of the Child’: Narratives of Jewish American Families and Young Children in Broadway Musicals” Barrie Gelles, The Graduate Center, City University of New York |
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10:45-12:45 | Session 7 | Hamilton Paul Laird, Chair |
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“‘Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?’: How Hamilton Makes History” Michelle Dvoskin, Western Kentucky University |
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“From Hair to Hamilton: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” Sarah Browne, University of Wolverhampton Sarah Whitfield, University of Wolverhampton |
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“‘The World Was Wide Enough’: Hamilton, Digital Fandom and the Participatory Spectator” Jessica Hillman, State University of New York at Fredonia |
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“#Ham4Ham For X” Daniel Dinero, New York University |
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12:45-1:45 | Lunch | ||
1:45-3:15 | Session 8 | Rethinking Musicals | S95 |
“Reclaiming a Forgotten Musical: The Case of A Joyful Noise” Scott Warfield, University of Central Florida |
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“Contested Categories: Contact (2000) as a Work of Musical Theater Joanna Dee Das, Washington University in St. Louis |
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“Punk Meets Broadway: American Idiot as a Musical in Two Worlds” Crystal Buck, Barton Community College |
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3:15-3:30 | Break | ||
3:30- 5:00 | Session 9 | Early Musicals, part 2 Millie Taylor, Chair |
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“Degeneration/Regeneration—The Remaking of Nation in Wartime West End Revue” David P. Linton, Kingston University |
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“Dreigroschenoper in the Depression: The Forgotten Broadway Premiere of 3-Penny Opera” Garrett Eisler, New York University |
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“A Voice in the Chorus: Collectivism and Individuality in Me and My Girl” George Burrows, University of Portsmouth |
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Wednesday, June 29 | |||
9:30-10:30 | Session 10 | A. LGBT, Part 1 George Burrows, Chair |
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“The Love That Dare Sing Its Name: Lesbian Desire in/and the Broadway Musical” Ryan Donovan, The Graduate Center, City University of New York |
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“‘Changing My Major to Joan’: Queer Representation in the Musical of the 21st Century” James Lovelock, University of Wolverhampton |
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B. Unlikely Stars: Imelda Staunton and Noël Coward | S185 | ||
“An Unlikely Diva—Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Lovett and Mama Rose” Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen, Bath Spa University |
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“Noël Coward: Broadway Composer and Lyricist” Laura Milburn, University of Sheffield |
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10:30-10:45 | Break | ||
10:45-12:45 | Session 11 |
A. Archival Studies John Graziano, Chair |
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“Painting the Wagon: Artistic Needs and Commercial Concerns in Orchestrations of the Golden Age of Broadway” Matthew Malone, University of Sheffield |
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“From The Silver Triangle to The Music Man: New Sources for the Development of a Broadway Classic” Dominic McHugh, University of Sheffield |
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“The Queen’s Taste: Processing the E. R. Simmons Papers” Helice Koffler, The Shubert Archive, New York |
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“‘What Does a Critical Edition Present?’: Challenges in Editing Musical Theatre Scores” Bradley Martin, California State University, Chico Andrew Adams, West Carolina University |
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B. Psychological Studies Olaf Jubin, Chair |
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“‘It’s a Shoe’: Musicals’ Depictions of Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Growth” Jessica Sternfeld, Chapman University |
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“‘You Didn’t Hear It’: Revealing the Traumatic Narrative in the Who’s Tommy” Kathryn Cox, University of Michigan |
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“‘Mozart Was Crazy’: Natalie’s Intersection with Classical Music in Next to Normal” Dan Fister, University of Cincinnati |
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“‘Didn’t I See This Movie?’: Between Rock and Madness in Next to Normal” Alosha Grinenko, The Graduate Center, City University of New York |
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12:45-1:45 | Lunch | ||
1:45-2:45 | Session 12 |
A. Audiences Ben Macpherson, Chair |
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“‘A Song that Hits You So Hard’: Emotion, Affect, and Silence in Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Vicki Lynette Hoskins, University of Pittsburgh |
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“Agency, Power and the Inner Child: the ‘Revolting Children’ of Matilda the Musical” Helen Freshwater, University of Newcastle |
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B. Opera and Broadway Musicals Elizabeth Wollman, Chair |
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“Masquerade: The Impact of 18th and 19th Century Operatic Traditions on The Phantom of the Opera" Sara E Gulgas, University of Pittsburgh |
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“A Model of Stylistic Expression in Musical Theater” Brian D. Hoffman, University of Central Florida |
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2:45-3:00 | Break | ||
3:00-4:00 | Session 13 |
A. Work and Play on Broadway Garrett Eisler, Chair |
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“Coming Home: The Presence of Baseball in Stage and Screen Musicals in Post-World War II America” Jeff Katz, New York Public Library |
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“‘You Learn to Live Without’: Women and work in the Broadway Musical” Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College |
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B. Rodgers and . . ., part 2 Dominic Symonds, Chair |
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“At the Heart of the Culture Wars: American Urban Nightlife and Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey” Julianne Lindberg, University of Nevada, Reno |
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"The Many Lives of ‘Edelweiss’” Susanne Scheiblhofer, Independent Scholar, Austria |
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4:15-5:15 | Session 14 |
Panel: Dancing and Fighting on Broadway Panel Mary Jo Lodge, Chair and Moderator Panelists:
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6:30 | Banquet at Nocello, W. 55th St. | ||
Thursday, June 30 | |||
9:30-11:00 | Session 15 | African American Musical Theater John Graziano, Chair |
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“Seven-Eleven at The Globe: Negotiating African American Identity in 1920s Cleveland” Peter Graff, Case Western Reserve University |
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“After Midnight and the Problem of Representing the Cotton Club” Nate Sloan, Stanford University |
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“Snake Hips Dance: Mapping Harlem Through the Cotton Club Parades” Malcolm Womack, University of Washington |
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11:00-11:15 | Break | ||
11:15-12:45 | Session 16 |
A. Plays, Power, and the Past Stacy Wolf, Chair |
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“Plays, Musical and Non-Musical” Derek Miller, Harvard University |
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“In Harm’s Way: The Contest Between Stage Producers and Music Publishers for the Control of Broadway Musicals, 1915-1930” Michael Garber, State University of New York, Purchase |
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“‘. . . that you might find in a musical’: Reclaiming Intertextual Traditions in Urinetown” Adam Rush, University of Lincoln |
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B. Culture, Politics, and Religion Ryan Bunch, Chair |
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“All That Jazz: The Troubled Journey of Chicago from Stage to Screen” Robert Gordon, University of London |
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“Vaudeville Melodies: Creative Fragmentation as Cultural Practice” Nicholas Gebhardt, Birmingham City University |
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“The Missionary Musical: Performing Faith and the Colonial Project” Kathryn Edney, Regis College |
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12:45-1:45 | Lunch | ||
1:45-2:45 | Session 17 | LGBT, part 2 Scott Warfield, Chair |
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“A Beauty But a Funny Girl: A Queer Investigation of the Broadwayfication of Disney” Christen Mandracchia, Independent Scholar |
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“Fierce Drag and Culture Clashes: Priscilla’s Troubled Ride on Broadway” Wes Pearce, University of Regina |
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2:45-3:00 | Break | ||
3:00-3:30 | Closing Remarks
Paul Laird, University of Kansas, Lawrence Announcements |
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