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The Myth of the Diva: Female Opera Singers and Collaborative Performance in Early Eighteenth-Century London.
(2013)
This dissertation explores how female singers transformed the production and reception of theatrical music in London between 1703 and 1720 by collaborating with other performers. I focus on those women who performed during ...
The Opera is Booming. This is a City.: Opera in the Urban Frontier of Denver, 1864-1893
(2019)
In 1888, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent praised Denver, Colorado, as “a metropolis, a center of refinement, a place rich in itself, influential, and the admiration of all beholders.” Three decades earlier, Denver had been ...
Fraternal Masculinities: Dancing, Performing, and Queering Brotherhoods
(2022)
Fraternal Masculinities: Dancing, Performing, and Queering Brotherhoods looks at the shared experiences of eight male students of color between 2017 and 2019 as they established a newly formed chapter of the Fi Iota Alpha ...
From Being to Becoming: Protests, Festivals, and Musical Mediations of Igorot Indigeneity
(2021)
Case studies that highlight the complex musical lives of Igorots, a minority group from Northern Philippines, remain sparse in ethnomusicological studies on Philippine indigenous music. Due largely to colonial racial logics ...
Arguing With Himself: Mark Lamos and the Anatomy of Directing Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at New York City Opera.
(2013)
Opera has long been the dominion of singers, composers, and conductors. Opera scholarship has been produced largely by music historians, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists. Recently, the trend is changing in opera ...
Interpreting Race and Difference in the Operas of Richard Strauss
(2020)
After World War II, Richard Strauss’s life and compositions came under intense scrutiny as scholars tried to understand his position with respect to the National Socialist regime. Their conclusions varied; however, the ...
To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Post-Independence Jamaica
(2020)
“To Own Ourselves: Dancing Caribbean Radicalism in Independent Jamaica” is a political history of the West Indies grounded in dance as a decolonizing epistemology. This work charts the development of staged concert dance ...
Being in Relation: Achieving Mutuality in Moments of Play
(2017)
Human connection is an innate human need. More than that, it is a rich source of life satisfaction, the purest expression of our humanity, and only in moments of human connection do we fully come into being. Such moments ...
Stages of History: Performing 1970s Italy with Narrative Theater.
(2013)
Emerging from the unrest of the 1970s in Italy, a minimalist one-person performance genre, later known as Narrative Theater, shifts the focus from dominant national allegories to the experiences of individuals and what ...
Capital Entertainment: Stage Work and the Origins of the Creative Economy, 1843 - 1912
(2018)
We are told on a daily basis that the future of work is creative. The 4.7 million employees in the arts generate more than $698 billion annually for the U.S. economy, while creativity is celebrated far beyond the artist’s ...