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MS Opera and Musical Performance

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  • Profile picture of Sydney Boyd

    Sydney Boyd started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 1 year 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month 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).

  • Profile picture of Carol Zuses

    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceOpera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on MLA Commons 2 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 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]

  • Profile picture of Adewale Bankole Ajayi

    Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceOpera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 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]

  • Profile picture of Kendra Leonard

    Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceMS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 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 Group logo of MS Opera and Musical PerformanceOpera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on MLA Commons 7 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]

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