The Musical Theatre and All That Jazz Network was founded this year thanks to funding from the Arts Humanities Research Council. This AHRC network brings together an international group of scholars to exchange ideas about connections between musical theatre and jazz in dialogue with practitioners and industry workers. Through these exchanges, the network aims to develop new approaches and practices at the intersection of forms and understandings. Network events are convened by Dr George Burrows (Portsmouth) and Prof Nick Gebhardt (BCU).
Musical theatre references jazz in its music and performance styles and in its representations of race, gender, sexuality and class. Conversely, jazz has adopted features of musical theatre in its repertoire of standards and approaches to performing, recording and marketing. While such intersections have sometimes been acknowledged, the understandings, features and practices common to both forms have not been explored in detail before or considered for their meanings and developmental potential. The Musical Theatre and All That Jazz Research Network seeks to put that right and to see what can be gained by working across or between forms.
For more information, please go to www.port.ac.uk/mtjazz and/or email [log in to unmask]
The network will be hosting the first event this month on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 May through keynotes, panels and discussions online. You can book a space through Eventbrite and events are free to attend. Please see the links and schedules below.
Thursday 27 May 5-7.30pm, via Eventbrite/Zoom
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mt-jazz-network-keynote-the-growth-of-jazz-dance-on-stage-plus-panel-tickets-146351295665
5.00pm Keynote lecture: ‘The Growth of Jazz Dance on Stage: How Black Movement Transformed Musical Theatre, 1875-1925’. Professor Thomas L. Riis (University of Colorado, Boulder)
5.45pm Keynote questions/discussion
6.00pm BREAK
6.20pm Interdisciplinary Forms and Genres Panel: Dr Anna Bull (University of Portsmouth): ‘Genres as hierarchies of value’ and Prof John Craven (Kings College London): ‘What might ‘jazz’ mean? A Philosophical Perspective on Negotiating Genres’
7.00pm Discussion
7.30pm Close
Friday 28 May 5.30-6.30pm, via Eventbrite / Zoom
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mt-jazz- network-keynote-prof-daphne-a-brooks-revolutionary-arias-tickets-154033601649
5.30pm Keynote lecture: Professor Daphne A. Brooks (Yale University) ‘Revolutionary Arias: Four Saints in Three Acts, Porgy and Bess and the Sound of the Black Feminist Avant-Garde’
6.15pm Keynote questions/discussion
6.30pm Close
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