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Sydney Boyd started the topic Soliciting Suggestions for Election to Executive Committee in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year ago
The MS Opera and Musical Performance forum executive committee is actively soliciting suggestions for nomination to the committee. Please respond here or reach out directly if you or someone you know would be interested in serving, ideally before January 21, 2022.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Louise Talma: a Life in Composition in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Analysis of composer Louise Talma’s music using autobiographical theory
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Kendra Leonard deposited The Art Songs of Louise Talma in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Analysis and scholarly editions of composer Louise Talma’s works for single voice and piano.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Review of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Full-length CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
A postscript to my previous post on CFPs for MLA 2022: Here is a more detailed description of “Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages” panel.
In keeping with the MLA 2022 conference theme of Multilingual US, the Executive Committee of the Media Studies Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has announced the following guaranteed session: Foun…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Opera and Musical Performance Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
In anticipation of MLA 2022, the MS Opera and Musical Performance forum is pleased to announce two calls for papers, the second of which is in collaboration with the Drama and Performance forum:
Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages
Many librettos are written in a language other than that of their source text. What interesting results…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Political & Social History of Music (Study Guide PDF) in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session: Opera after World War II in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
The executive committee of the MLA Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has issued a call for papers for a session at the 2021 convention, “Opera after World War II: Production, Memory, Mourning,” on “how operatic productions after World War II participate in, elide, or mediate historical catastrophe or radical discontinuity.” The word limit f…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414–"The Pitch of the Voice" & more in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 3 years ago
Come at 5:15 to 6:30 today, Fri., to Willow A in the Sheraton, for “‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Review of James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker, eds.
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and
Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. New York and London:
Routledge, 2018. xii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781138287471 (hardback). -
Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited HUMN 3220: Political & Social History of Music in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
Coloniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic First Forum Delegate Election: Call for Membership Suggestions in the discussion
Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
The first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for MS Opera and Musical Performance will be held in the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making n…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
Shakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on MLA Commons 9 years ago
Applications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]