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Theater and Performance

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Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

By Margaret Cormier
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Music and Social Justice

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

By David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Music, Popular Music
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

By Nicole Hodges Persley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies, Music

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

In Concert

Performing Musical Persona

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Media Studies

Examining how performers engage and delight their audience through persona, appearance, and spectacle

Singing Out

GALA Choruses and Social Change

By Heather MacLachlan
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines whether LGBT choruses can change the hearts and minds of their audiences

Everybody In, Nobody Out

Inspiring Community at Michigan's University Musical Society

By Ken Fischer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Art and Culture, Theater and Performance, Education, Higher Education, Music, Popular Music

A reflection on the power of the performing arts to engage and enrich communities

The Passions of Peter Sellars

Staging the Music

By Susan McClary
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

Tracing the legendary career of Peter Sellars through his visually rich opera productions

Broadway Rhythm

Imaging the City in Song

By Dominic Symonds
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, American Studies, Urban Studies

Imaginative walking tours that retrace the map of Manhattan as it resonates with the music of Broadway

 

Playing God

The Bible on the Broadway Stage

By Henry Carl Bial
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Religion, Music

A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from Ben-Hur to Jesus Christ Superstar

Taking It to the Bridge

Music as Performance

Edited by Nicholas Cook & Richard Pettengill
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology

Musicologists and performance studies scholars reach across their disciplines to examine the role of performance in musical culture

Sounding Like a No-No

Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

By Francesca T. Royster
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello

Physical Expression and the Performing Artist

Moving Beyond the Plateau

By Jerald C. Schwiebert
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Dance

Fundamentals of movement for actors, conductors, musicians, yogis . . . and everyone else

Say Word!

Voices from Hip Hop Theater

By Daniel Banks
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Music
Series: Critical Performances

Compelling plays by leading Hip Hop artists writing in the language of today

Highbrow/Lowdown

Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class

By David Savran
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Jazz, American Studies, Class Studies

The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

The Theater Will Rock

A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig

By Elizabeth Lara Wollman
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies

Chronicles the rock musical's artistic and financial blockbusters—and bombs—from 1960 to the present

How Sondheim Found His Sound

By Steve Swayne
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance

An in-depth look at the musical and dramatic influences in Sondheim's music, and the first book to provide an overview of his style

Performing Glam Rock

Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Gender Studies

Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance

Black Cultural Traffic

Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Edited by Harry Justin Elam & Kennell Jackson
Subjects: Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Music, Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

Fascinating Rhythm

The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin

By Deena Ruth Rosenberg
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance

Offers special insight into some of the most popular songs of the twentieth century

Sondheim's Broadway Musicals

By Stephen 0 Banfield
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance

The first in-depth look at the work and career of one of the most important figures in the history of musical theater

Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?

Yip Harburg, Lyricist

By Harold Meyerson & Ernie Harburg
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

The life story of the man who gave Dorothy and her Oz companions something to sing about

Theater as Music

The Bunraku Play “Mt. Imo and Mt. Se

By C. Gerstle, C. Andrew Gerstle, Kiyoshi Inobe, and William Malm
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Music Theory, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines Bunraku in performance and brings together musical, dramatic, and historical analyses into one study

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