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Journal articles on the topic "Political aspects of Musical theater"
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Krouk, Dean. "The Montage Rhetoric of Nordahl Grieg’s Interwar Drama." Humanities 7, no. 4 (October 15, 2018): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7040099.
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This essay explains the modernist montage rhetoric of Nordahl Grieg’s 1935 drama Vår ære og vår makt in the context of the playwright’s interest in Soviet theater and his Communist sympathies. After considering the historical background for the play’s depiction of war profiteers in Bergen, Norway, during the First World War, the article analyzes Grieg’s use of a montage rhetoric consisting of grotesque juxtapositions and abrupt scenic shifts. Attention is also given to the play’s use of incongruous musical styles and its revolutionary political message. In the second part, the article discusses Grieg’s writings on Soviet theater from the mid-1930s. Grieg embraced innovative aspects of Soviet theater at a time when the greatest period of experimentation in post-revolutionary theater was already ending, and Socialist Realism was being imposed. The article briefly discusses Grieg’s controversial pro-Stalinist, anti-fascist position, before concluding that Vår ære og vår makt represents an important instance of Norwegian appropriation of international modernist and avant-garde theater.
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O'Leary, James. "Oklahoma!, “Lousy Publicity,” and the Politics of Formal Integration in the American Musical Theater." Journal of Musicology 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 139–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2014.31.1.139.
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The achievements of Rodger and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (1943) are well known: since the musical opened, critics have proclaimed it a new version of the genre, distinguished by its “integrated” form, in which all aspects of the production—score, script, costume, set, and choreography—are interrelated and inseparable. Although today many scholars acknowledge that Oklahoma! was not the first musical to implement the concept of integration, the musical is often considered revolutionary. Building on the work of Tim Carter, I use the correspondence and press materials in the Theatre Guild Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University to situate the idea of integration into two intimately related discourses: contemporary notions of aesthetic prestige and World War II-era politics. By comparing the advertising of Oklahoma! to the Guild’s publicity for its previous musical productions (especially Porgy and Bess, which was labeled integrated in 1935), I demonstrate that press releases from the show’s creative team strategically deployed rhetoric and vocabulary that variously depicted the show as both highbrow and lowbrow, while distancing it from middlebrow entertainment. I then describe how the aesthetic register implied by this tiered rhetoric carried political overtones, connotations that are lost to us today because the word “integration” has become reified as a purely formal concept.
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Milanovic, Biljana. "Politics in the context of the “Opera question” in the national theatre before the first world war." Muzikologija, no. 12 (2012): 37–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz120202002m.
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Part of the history of the National Theatre in Belgrade in the decade before the First World War relates to processes of discontinuity in the professionalization and modernization of the musical section in this institution and its repertoire. It had to do with abrupt changes reflected in three short-lived phases: improvements in musical ensemble and opera performances (1906-1909), the annulment of these efforts and results with a return to the old repertoire, and then again a new beginning once more with a fresh attempt to establish the Opera (1913-14). These dynamics were affected by the social and political context. It was dependent on frequent changes of the Theatre?s management staff whose main representatives had mutually conflicting views on important questions concerning the functioning of their institution. Relations between them were strongly marked by contested political motives. Theatre managers were appointed by ministers of education who could also be relieved of their posts, and members of the management staff were always active in political parties. These facts acted as a decisive factor in their communication which was similar to the behaviour and customs of public political life where an opponent is seen as an enemy, not as a partner in solving common problems. Critical and polemical discourses on important aspects of organization and programme strategy of the Theatre were burdened by political rivalry which also found its place in discussions on the cultivation of music. Questions relating to music were considered in a declarative way, so that music was instrumentalized as a means of political empowerment. The facts about music in the National Theatre raise many issues related to aspects of modernization, national identification, transfers of ?high? and popular musical cultures as well as to other problems of social, historical and cultural contexts that were intertwined in the operation of the Theatre. The context of political problems in the National Theatre opens some important topics discussed in the text: the discontinuous process of the development of the musical ensemble and its repertoire in conditions of changing management staff; prominent musical professionals and ideologists of cultural life and their relations to the musical and dramatic repertoire as well as to their audiences; potential Belgrade audience reception and their reactions to the musical and dramatic repertoire of the National Theatre. An integral analysis of these may show inconsistency between ideological and artistic intentions of individuals and the needs of the audience during the course of modernization.
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Spivakovskyi, Oleksandr. "Ukrainian performances of small form operas in the era of the 2000s." Ukrainian musicology 46 (October 27, 2020): 75–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31318/0130-5298.2020.46.234597.
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The purpose of the work. The article defines the role of the small form operas in the development of Ukrainian music and drama theatre of the 2000s. The research methodology is based on key provisions, concepts of music directing, developed during the twentieth century and their diversification in today's realities. Such general scientific methods as art history, history, analysis and synthesis, and comparative methods were chosen to compare Ukrainian productions of small form operas of the 2000s. The scientific novelty of the work lies in rethinking functioning of small opera forms according to the realities of modern Ukraine and elucidating the factors influencing their modern development and changes. Conclusions. The role of operas of small forms in the repertoire of Ukrainian musical theatres and artistic-theatrical projects is increasing under various conditions such as: socio-cultural and political conflicts of a new millennium, the role of operas of small forms in the repertoire of Ukrai-nian musical theatres and artistic-theatrical projects is increasing. The modern audience is the part of information society, which exists on its own, often developing at an accelerated pace, and it must be taken into account by the directors of musical theatre when deciding on the repertoire for subsequent staging of an opera. The relevance of the drama of the selected works, ideological and artistic qualities, aesthetic and educational aspects of the opera, as well as the assessment of creative and material possibilities for the realization of the idea of the play are essential, crucial elements that should be taken into consideration in order to ensure effective opera staging and production. In the 2000s, art and theatre projects enriched Ukrainian stage by conducting research and experimenting with the scope and subject of performance as well as with their genre and style, thus confirming and updating small opera forms.
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Makliuk, D. "Ivan Mazepa’s personality as a cultural symbol: historicalperforming aspects." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 55, no. 55 (November 20, 2019): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-55.05.
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Abstract. The article explores the image of I. Mazepa in the context of numerous sources devoted to the personality of the Ukrainian hetman in historical science, literature and music. The analysis shows that the ideas of the great Ukrainian in the works of art evolve: from a traitor to a patriot. If in the 18th – 19th centuries artists created this image being inspired by myths, then from the early 20th century and up to the present time the historical approach has been dominant. In this paper the author suggests performing aspect basing on the vocal and scenic image of I. Mazepa created by him on the stage of Kharkiv National Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Lysenko. The interpretation of the extraordinary personality of the Ukrainian hetman gives the audience an opportunity to look at Mazepa from a historical perspective. It is noted that his image in this performance is not limited to a national vision, but acquires a universal character. I. Mazepa’s personality is of great interest to modern Ukrainians living both in their historical homeland and far beyond its borders. At present, contradictory assessments of Mazepa’s role in the chronicle of Ukrainian history require the establishment of historical and artistic truth. P. Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazepa is perceived as a fruitful material to search for a new interpretation of the image. It was first performed on the stage of Kharkiv National Opera and Ballet Theater named after N. V. Lysenko on July 2, 2017 to mark the 330th anniversary of Ivan Mazepa’s election as hetman of Ukraine. This fact gives a chance to bring into focus a relevant performing interpretation of the image of this outstanding figure in Ukrainian history. Among the numerous historians and literary critics cited in the article, we find a new interpretation of Mazepa’s image in contrast to music studies (N. Lupak’s dissertation). The method of analysis is conditioned by the creative practice of the KhNAOBTh and its own performance experience. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the reinterpretation of Mazepa’s vocal and scenic image in the production of the P. I. Tchaikovsky’s opera of the same name on the stage of KhNAOBTh named after M. Lysenko (2017) basing on the critical analysis of scientific historiography. The attitude towards I. Mazepa as a historical personality and a person has always been ambiguous. He combined the incomparable: on the one hand, he was a great military and political figure who fought for the creation of the Ukrainian state, on the other hand – a treacherous traitor; at his initiative, 26 Orthodox churches were created throughout Ukraine and, at the same time, he was an apostate devotee who took part in the destruction of Ukrainian cities and villages; a person capable of loving in the broadest sense of the word. He had everything that attracted and aroused great interest of writers, composers, artists, directors not only in our country but also far beyond its borders. And each author interpreted the image of Mazepa in their own way. In the 19th century, the image of the Ukrainian hetman fell into the area of artistic interests of M. Staritsky. He, like Voltaire and Byron, used the Western European legend of Mazepa in the novel “Mazepa’s Youth”, which was appropriate for its genre (historical-adventure). Naturally, the idea of “independent Ukraine” did not fit into Russia’s interests. In Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazepa (1883), based on A. Pushkin’s story (libretto by V. P. Burenin) everything is quite complex. It is important to note that many researchers of Tchaikovsky’s creativity believe that in Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa historical facts are sidelined while lyrical love scenes dominate. There were a number of questions when the image of Mazepa was ctreated in the original Ukrainian version of the opera on the stage of Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after N. Lysenko. The main one is how to maintain faithfulness not only to historical but also to the life’s truth? The times of the Hetmanate in Ukraine were silenced for about 300 years, and, in particular, the true life of one of its most famous representatives was unknown. But in order to create an image, it is important to know the smallest shades of your character’s psychotype. As the lyrical scenes of Mary and Mazepa are the central line in the opera, it is necessary to understand what kind of relationship they really had. Kharkiv stage directors of P. Tchaikovsky’s opera (director Armen Kaloyan and conductor People’s Artist of Ukraine Garkusha) sought to convey this very episode from the life of Mazepa, who openly loves his darling and suffers from having to cruelly deal with her father and hurt her badly. In addition, there was created their own version of the text (by Victor Marinchak, Svetlana Oleshko and Mikhail Barbara) and changes were made to the musical dramaturgy of the opera. The main idea of stage directors was to transform the content of the opera into another field – to reveal the image of the hetman as a significant figure in the history of Ukraine, which was much more important for Mazepa than the alliance with Peter I. The difficulty of creating a vocal and scenic image of Mazepa lies in its multi-vector character, which should not interfere with artistic unity and integrity: Mazepa-lover (in the tradition of Western European romanticism), Mazepastatesman (Ukrainian national tradition) and, at the same time, in the interpretation of Kharkiv theatre Mazepa-traitor had to be neutralized (an enemy that is characteristic of Russian imperial thinking). The motives of torments, sorrow and, along with this, the rebellious nature of the protagonist become considerable in the opera, rising to genuine symbolism. Thus, in the vast number of works dedicated to I. Mazepa, his image is not limited to the national framework, but acquires a universal significance. Conclusions. Analysis has shown the evolution of ideas about the great Ukrainian: from traitor to patriot and legendary hetman. If in the 18th century the image of the Ukrainian hero was interpreted in many ways by its creators on the basis of myths, then in the 20th – 21st centuries the historical approach prevails in understanding performing interpretation of Mazepa. The creation of a complex, extraordinary personality on the opera stage requires from the performer, in addition to knowledge of Mazepa’s vocal part, a thorough study of various axiological judgments. The above given interpretations of I. Mazepa’s image reflect the irreconcilable confrontation and “blood” belonging of one or another author to different systems of values of the worldview. Such interpretations indicate that the image of I. Mazepa is interpreted as a symbol, an archetype of the national opera tradition. Undertaking further study of the theme can involve performing analysis of Mazepa’s image on the stages of Kyiv and Odessa opera theaters with a view of understanding the performing principles when teaching young vocalists in the class of solo singing.
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Taylor, Millie. "Miss Littlewood and me: Performing ethnography." Studies in Musical Theatre 14, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00019_1.
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Joan Littlewood (1914‐2002) was a pioneer of theatre directing in the United Kingdom, most famous for her production of Oh What a Lovely War!. This article performs an ethnographic study of Miss Littlewood, a 2018 musical by Sam Kenyon, which documents Littlewood’s life and work using the style of the earlier show. Miss Littlewood’s plot reveals details of Littlewood’s life and work, while its form mirrors the montage techniques that she pioneered in Britain. The article uses interviews and rehearsal observations to document aspects of the process by which Miss Littlewood was developed. It reflects on the tensions that are revealed between that relatively luxurious process and Littlewood’s political and financial realities. Ethnography was an ideal method for documenting this process because it facilitated observation of relationships between the various works and demonstrated the fluidity and creativity of academic writing.
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Mitchell, Katie, and Mario Frendo. "A Conversation on Directing Opera." New Theatre Quarterly 37, no. 3 (July 19, 2021): 246–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x21000142.
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Katie Mitchell has been directing opera since 1996, when she debuted on the operatic stage with Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni at the Welsh National Opera. Since then, she has directed more than twenty-nine operas in major opera houses around the world. Mitchell here speaks of her directorial approach when working with the genre, addressing various aspects of interest for those who want a better grasp of the dynamics of opera-making in the twenty-first century. Ranging from the director’s imprint, or signature on the work they put on the stage, to the relationships forged with people running opera institutions, Mitchell reflects on her experiences when staging opera productions. She sheds light on some fundamental differences between theatre-making and opera production, including the issue of text – the libretto, the dramatic text, and the musical score – and the very basic fact that in opera a director is working with singers, that is, with musicians whose attitude and behaviour on stage is necessarily different from that of actors in the theatre. Running throughout the conversation is Mitchell’s commitment to ensure that young and contemporary audiences do not see opera as a museum artefact but as a living performative experience that resonates with the aesthetics and political imperatives of our contemporary world. She speaks of the uncompromising political imperatives that remain central to her work ethic, even if this means deserting a project before it starts, and reflects on her long-term working relations with opera institutions that are open to new and alternative approaches to opera-making strategies. Mitchell underlines her respect for the specific rules of an art form that, because of its collaborative nature, must allow more space for theatre-makers to venture within its complex performative paths if it wants to secure a place in the future. Mario Frendo is Senior Lecturer of Theatre and Performance and Head of the Department of Theatre Studies at the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, where he is the director of CaP, a research group focusing on the links between culture and performance.
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Yan, Yang. "The activities of the Chinese orchestras of the traditional instruments of the new type in the 1960s - 1970s." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 49, no. 49 (September 15, 2018): 198–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-49.14.
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Background. The article discusses one of the most complex and controversial periods in the development of the Chinese orchestra of traditional instruments of the new type – the 1960–70s. Since 1966, with the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, all conservatories were closed, and Western instruments and teaching materials were destroyed. Chinese musicians, unable to play classical music, were forced to work with folk songs and folklore in remote provinces. The objective assessment of this historical phenomenon makes it possible to evaluate it not only as a dead end on China’s path to modern progress, but also as an era of constructive innovations and efforts to make a real change in China’s cultural heritage. The specifics of the creative activity of orchestras conducted by conductors Li Delun, Huang Yijun, Li Guoquan, Yang Jizhen is highlighted. Objectives. The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the development of the Chinese orchestra of traditional instruments in the 1960s – 1970s, to determine the role of prominent Chinese musicians in the process of modernizing the orchestra and creating a national repertoire during this period. Research methods are based on scientific approaches necessary for the disclosure of the topic. The methodology is based on an integrated approach that combines the principle of musical theoretical, musical historical and executive analysis. Results. As soon as the Cultural Revolution began, the music centers in Beijing and Shanghai came under attack. Composers were deprived of their creative freedom, since all the works had to correspond to the political situation of the time. At this time, collective creativity in the genre of opera and ballet, written according to certain pattern and corresponding to the ideas of Mao Zedong, is widely adopted. As standards of “new art”, official propaganda put forward “exemplary” revolutionary performances – Yanbanshee, almost entirely based on the material of the period of the liberation struggle. The Central and Shanghai orchestras were also persecuted. The chief conductor of the Central Symphony Orchestra, Li Delun was arrested. Since 1963, the programs of the Shanghai Orchestra of Chinese Instruments have begun to reflect the country’s transition to the Cultural Revolution. In the compositions appeared more pronounced revolutionary ideals, showing the need for government reform. Such content was, for example, the orchestral suite "Revolutionary Song", created by the musicians of the Shanghai orchestra. Due to the policy of the Cultural Revolution after 1964, the orchestra completely ceased to perform. In 1964, works performed at a concert in honor of the nation’s birthday included revolutionary pieces such as “Praise to the People”, “Spring Gong Enhances Performance”, “Battle in Shanghai”, and others. Shanghai Orchestra Conductor Juan Yijun, composer Luo Zhongrong, one of the authors of the revolutionary symphony “Shatszyaban” was persecuted and sent to the countryside for forced labor. In 1966, as a result of the repressions, outstanding conductors Li Guoquan and Yang Jazheng died. The widespread distribution of orchestras in China is a paradox. “Exemplary Performances” played an active role in the distribution of Chinese symphonic music. Many amateur orchestras significantly increased their professional level and could perform individual symphonic works. Major symphonic works on revolutionary themes were also created: Qu Wei’s “The Gray-Haired Girl” symphonic suite (created by his ballet), Tian Feng’s “Five Cantatas to lyrics by Mao Zedong”, “Pipa Concert for Orchestra” and “Steppe Sisters” Wu Zujiang, Liu Dehai, Wang Yanqiao. Another genre was music for ballets (“The Red Women’s Battalion”, “The Gray-Haired Girl”). Conclusions. In the period from the 1960s to the 1970s, Chinese orchestral music was enriched with new genres that influenced its subsequent development. In spite of the fact that the main models of Yangbanshee are the opera and ballet genres, major symphonic works were also created: the symphony “Shatszyaban” (Luo Zhongzhong, Yang Muyun, Deng Jiaan, Tan Jingming); Qu Wei’s symphonic suite “The Gray-Haired Girl”; Overture “Festival” Xu Yang Yang, Pipa Concert with Orchestra “Steppe Sisters” Wu Zuqiang, Liu Dehai, Wang Yanqiao. In these compositions combine the traditions of Chinese musical art and European orchestral art, embodied the creative search for Chinese composers and performers to create samples of the modern symphony genre in China. Collective creativity was widespread: on the one hand, the efforts of several people created largescale monumental compositions, on the other hand, the individual author’s principle was leveled, which made it possible to “depersonalize” music. However, an understanding of the cultural aspects of Yanbanshee and its features in a political context is of great importance for an objective study of the development processes of musical art in China. Starting around the 1990s, the political thaw allowed musical works from the time of the Cultural Revolution, gradually returning them to the mainstream of the achievements of Chinese society. Since then, the Yanbanshee has a strong tendency to revive, enjoying the support of the population and continuing to be very popular in the theater, on television, and in the form of commercial and private entertainment.
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Kropova, Daria Sergeevna. "From Greek Tragedy To Opera-Film." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 7, no. 2 (June 15, 2015): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik7262-72.
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There are some common features between opera (film-opera and theater-opera) and the Greek tragedy. Hereafter a question arises: why theoreticians and artists try to revive tragedy - what is so important in ancient drama that remains actual up to date? The author argues, that musical drama (opera) is the successor to the Greek tragedy, whereas cinema exposes musical and ancient nature of the opera clearer, than theater. The author dwells upon new possibilities of opera: different ways ofcooperation between musical and visual constituents, differences between stage and screen operas; advantages of the film-opera. The screen adaptation of opera is very actual and has special aspects. It is obvious, that opera enriches cinema language and cinema reforms traditional theatrical musical drama. There is a number of works, which are devoted to the problem of the opera- film (mostly written by music experts), but there are no special research on the part of cinema theoreticians. Cinema-opera differs from theater-opera. Cooperation between image and music is defined by specific features of the camera. The opportunities of cinema are wider in some aspects and may advance reform of stage. Integration of arts in opera-film is connected with integration of arts in the Greek tragedy. The Athenian drama, grown up from ancient cults, is connected with ancient rituals. Since the ancient sources of drama find their reflection in film-opera, the latter reaches out these cults.
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Pankiv, L. "Formation of artistic orientations of senior pupils in the process of musical-theater activities: methodological aspects." Pedagogy and Psychology 45, no. 4 (December 31, 2020): 170–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-4.2077-6861.21.
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The article highlights the problems of artistic education of high school students in modern conditions. The essence and significance of the artistic orientations of the individual in the context of his spiritual development are considered. Taking into account the age and psychological characteristics of high school students, the role of musical and theatrical activity in the formation of artistic orientations of high school students as a value and selective attitude to art has been substantiated. The pedagogical conditions and methods of the formation of artistic orientations of senior pupils in the process of musical and theatrical activity are revealed. The distinguished methodological aspects of the formation of artistic orientations of senior pupils in the process of musical and theatrical activity are considered as the basis for the effectiveness of pedagogical work in this direction. It has been proved that the formation of the artistic orientations of high school students in the process of musical and theatrical activity opens up new opportunities for art education on the path of the spiritual development of youth.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Political aspects of Musical theater"
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Katzke, Marlie. "Die ontwikkeling en huidige aard van musiekblyspele in Suid-Afrika." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95851.
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Thesis (MDram)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The musical is one of the many forms of musical theatre and consists of certain qualities that define the genre. This form developed out of various genres en there are many approaches and definitions for the musical.This study investigates the nature and changing nature of the musical in South Africa, and it also studies the various factors that contributed and still contributes to the development of the concept musical.The economic-, socio-economic, historical- en cultural background of South Africa is used throughout the study to understand and interpret the nature and context of this theatrical art form. The study is divided into periods; pre – colonial South Africa, Colonial South Africa, Apartheid South Africa and Post-Apartheid South Africa. The above periods are furthermore organized into the following categories; historical background, available theatre spaces, the involvement of theatre makers, forms of musicals found and examples of musicals present during the specific periods.Various forms of the musical are researched; the indigenous community musical, the urban black musical, the anti-apartheid musical, the township musical, independent musicals, international phenomena, contemporary trends as well as the appearance and relevance of the musical at festivals in South Africa.The conclusion of the study is that the nature of musicals in South Africa is bound to various factors that influence this theatrical form, and the form is thus adaptable due to elements such as social-, cultural-, economic- en socio-economic factors.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die musiekblyspel is ‘n onderafdeling van musiekteater en bevat spesifieke eienskappe wat dié genre definieer. Die vorm het ontwikkel vanuit verskeie genres en daar bestaan verskillende benaderings tot en definisies vir die musiekblyspel. Hierdie studie ondersoek die wese en aard en verandering van dié genre in Suid-Afrika, en ook die verskeie faktore wat bygedra het en steeds bydra tot die ontstaan en ontwikkeling van die konsep musiekblyspel. Die ekonomiese-, sosio-ekonomiese-, historiese- en kulturele agtergrond van Suid-Afrika dien as deurlyn, om sodoende ook die aard van die teatervorm in konteks te verstaan en te interpreteer. Die studie is voorts ook verdeel in Pre – koloniale Afrika, gevolg deur Koloniale Suid-Afrika, die Apartheid-era en laastens die Post-Apartheidsera. Die onderskeie tydperke is verder in die volgende onderadelings verdeel; historiese agtergrond, beskikbare teaterruimtes, betrokkenheid van teatermakers, vorme van musiekblyspele aanwesig en voorbeelde van musiekblyspele gedurende bogenoemde tydperke. Verskeie vorme van die musiekblyspel word bestudeer, onder andere die inheemse gemeenskapsmusiekblyspel, die inheemse swart musiekblyspel, die anti-apartheid musiekblyspel, die township-musiekblyspel, onafhanklike, nie staatsgesubsideerde musiekblyspele, internasionale verskynsels, hedendaagse tendense, asook die voorkoms en relevansie van musiekblyspele by kunstefeeste. Die gevolgtrekking van die studie is dat die aard van musiekblyspele in Suid-Afrika gebonde is aan verskeie faktore wat die teatervorm beïnvloed en sodoende is die vorm aanpasbaar weens elemente soos sosiale-, kulturele-, ekonomiese en sosio-ekonomiese faktore.
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Copteros, Athina. "Workshop theatre in post-apartheid South Africa : a case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007477.
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This is a qualitative study exploring the use of workshop theatre in post-apartheid South Africa, with the objective of making a contribution to the knowledge-base regarding its use in current times. Workshop theatre is changing in response to a new socio-political reality and emerging trends in theatre practice. The case study, of developing a play on Oystercatchers with a Grahamstown group of artists, revealed the difficulties and challenges of using workshop theatre in this dynamic context. Data collection included a focus group, observation, reflective discussion and in-depth interviews that were analysed in relation to available literature on workshop theatre in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. It is proposed that workshop theatre has continued relevance in post -apartheid South Africa. The process of creating workshop theatre with diverse artists has great potential to transform relationships, address issues of personal identity and to provide an underlying purpose to a workshop theatre -making context.
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Saroh, Karine. "Le théâtre musical au XXe siècle, une expérience politique." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU20077.
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Au cœur de l’élan moderniste qui anime le XXe siècle, l’expression « théâtre musical » devient l’étendard d’une recherche esthétique de nouvelles formes de rencontre scénique entre le théâtre et la musique. Que l’objectif soit de moderniser l’opéra, de le remplacer, de réformer le théâtre ou de créer un nouveau genre à mi-chemin entre les deux arts, les collaborations rassemblant compositeurs et hommes de théâtre entendent présenter des œuvres actuelles, qui balaient les modèles esthétiques jusqu’alors dominants. Si l’approche du théâtre musical est complexe tant il s’avère polymorphe, le contexte social et la proximité des artistes avec le milieu activiste nous invitent à considérer également les œuvres selon leurs qualités militantes et/ou politiques. À l’heure où les sociétés européennes sont ébranlées des guerres mondiales et des modèles totalitaires qui donnent lieu à une instabilité sociale importante, l’espace esthétique pluridisciplinaire du théâtre musical se révèle propice à la réflexion philosophique et à l’expérimentation des modalités de protection et d’émancipation du politique. L’utopie artistique, qui incite à repenser les cadres formels du théâtre musical, dans lequel les disciplines sont travaillées selon un système de relation égalitaire et d’autonomie des voix, cultive aussi des modèles d’utopie politique. Ainsi, après avoir exploré les ambitions esthétiques du théâtre musical et leur traduction dans les œuvres, nous ne manquons pas d’étudier sa relation dialogique avec la pensée politique qui lui est contemporaine. C’est en effet parce que son espace artistique (processus et productions) convoque l’utopie politique pour relever les défis esthétiques de la pluridisciplinarité, que le théâtre musical devient le lieu privilégié d’une réflexion philosophique sur la pratique militante et sur les moyens de l’exercice politique, ainsi que sur l’idéal démocratique dont nous sommes aujourd’hui les héritiersAt the core of the modernist impetus that animates the 20th century, the phrase “musical theatre” becomes the emblem of the aesthetic search of new ways of mixing theatre and music on the stage. Whether the aim is to modernize the opera, reform the dramatic art, or create a new genre halfway between both arts, composers, dramatists and producers collaborate to produce modern works and dispense with the old prevailing aesthetic model. Approaching musical theatre is quite a challenge, as it is so polymorphic; and the social context and the artists’ closeness to the activists’ world invite us, when examining their works, to consider their militant and political standpoints. At a time when European societies are weakened by World Wars and totalitarian regimes that give rise to an important social instability, the multidisciplinary aesthetic space of the musical theatre turns out to favour philosophical thought and the experimentation of methods for the protection and the emancipation of politics. The artistic utopia, which encourages us to reconsider the formal pattern of musical theatre where the arts are used on equal terms and the voices are independent, also promotes a political utopia. Then, after exploring the aesthetic ambitions of musical theatre and how they are technically expressed in the works, we are sure to study their intricate two-way relationship with contemporary political thought. Because its artistic space (process and productions) uses political utopia to take up the aesthetic challenge of multidisciplinarity, musical theatre turns out to be the ideal place for a philosophical appraisal of the militant practice, of the degree of political exercise as well as of the democratic ideal it has passed on to us
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Oliveira, Miguel Arcanjo Prado de 1981. "O discurso de O Estado de S. Paulo e Folha de S. Paulo sobre Cacilda!!! Glória no TBC do Oficina e Édipo na Praça do Satyros, peças que buscaram dialogar com as Jornadas de Junho de 2013 /." São Paulo, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154955.
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Orientador(a): Alexandre Luiz MateBanca: Danilo Júnior de Oliveira
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Resumo: A dissertação analisa, com base em teóricos da comunicação, da linguagem e da cultura, a cobertura feita pelos jornais paulistanos de circulação nacional no Brasil O Estado de S. Paulo e Folha de S.Paulo, bem como seus respectivos discursos, sobre as peças Cacilda!!! Glória no TBC da Associação Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona e Édipo na Praça da Cia. de Teatro Os Satyros. As produções teatrais buscaram dialogar com as "Jornadas de Junho" no ano de 2013. Após apresentar o contexto histórico no qual tais peças surgiram, dois meses após a eclosão das grandes manifestações conhecidas como "Jornadas de Junho", desencadeadas por um aumento na tarifa do transporte público na cidade de São Paulo, a pesquisa apresenta e analisa o discurso dos jornais sobre tais espetáculos, descortinando seu viés ideológico e político na cobertura jornalístico-cultural de tais peças
Abstract: This dissertation analyzes, based on communication, language and culture theorists, the coverage done by the newspapers from São Paulo: O Estado de S. Paulo and Folha de S. Paulo, as well as their respective discourses, about the plays: Cacilda!!! Glória no TBC (Cacilda!!! Gloria in the TBC) of the group Oficina and Édipo na Praça (Édipo in the Square) of the group Satyros, productions that dialogued with the "Journeys of June" in 2013, triggered by an increase in the public transportation fare in the city of São Paulo. After presenting the historical context in which such pieces appeared, two months after the outbreak of the great manifestations known as "Journeys of June", the research presents and analyzes the discourse of the newspapers about such shows, revealing their ideological and political bias in jornalistic-cultural coverage of the plays of the two groups studied
Resumen: Esta disertación analiza, con base en teóricos de la comunicación, del lenguaje y de la cultura, la cobertura hecha por los diarios paulistanos de circulación nacional en Brasil O Estado de S. Paulo y Folha de S. Paulo, así como sus respectivos discursos sobre las obras Cacilda!!! Glória no TBC (Cacilda!!! Gloria en el TBC) de la Associação Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona e Édipo na Praça (Edipo en la Plaza) de la Cia. de Teatro Os Satyros. Las producciones teatrales buscaron dialogar con las "Jornadas de Junio" en el año 2013. Después de presentar el contexto histórico en lo cual dichas obras surgieron, dos meses después de la eclosión de las grandes manifestaciones conocidas como "Jornadas de Junio", desencadenadas por el aumento de la tarifa del transporte público en la ciudad de San Pablo, la pesquisa presenta y analiza el discurso de los diarios sobre tales obras teatrales, descortinando su mirada ideológica y política en la cobertura periodística-cultural de estas obras
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McCall, Sarah B. "The Musical Fallout of Political Activism: Government Investigations of Musicians in the United States, 1930-1960." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277608/.
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Government investigations into the motion picture industry are well-documented, as is the widespread blacklisting that was concurrent. Not nearly so well documented are the many investigations of musicians and musical organizations which occurred during this same period. The degree to which various musicians and musical organizations were investigated varied considerably. Some warranted only passing mention, while others were rigorously questioned in formal Congressional hearings. Hanns Eisler was deported as a result of the House Committee on Un-American Activities' (HUAC) investigation into his background and activities in the United States. Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, and Aaron Copland are but a few of the prominent composers investigated by the government for their involvement in leftist organizations. The Symphony of the Air was denied visas for a Near East tour after several orchestra members were implicated as Communists. Members of musicians' unions in New York and Los Angeles were called before HUAC hearings because of alleged infiltration by Communists into their ranks. The Metropolitan Music School of New York, led by its president-emeritus, the composer Wallingford Riegger, was the subject of a two day congressional hearing in New York City. There is no way to measure either quantitatively or qualitatively the effect of the period on the music but only the extent to which the activities affected the musicians themselves. The extraordinary paucity of published information about the treatment of the musicians during this period is put into even greater relief when compared to the thorough manner in which the other arts, notably literature and film, have been examined. This work attempts to fill this gap and shed light on a particularly dark chapter in the history of contemporary music.
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Hojdyssek, Gunter Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "From laughing at the world to living in the world." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43091.
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Born in 1938 in Poland, I epxperienced wartime Berlin and post-war Stalinism. My first job, at sixteen, was with the East Berlin States Opera and the Bertold Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. The play writes Betrtold Brecht and Buechner had the strongest influence on me. Brecht's play 'Mutter Courage and her children' and Georg Buechner's 'Woyzech' encapsulated the harsh realities of post-war Europe, and confirmed my desire for social justice and reform. Yet, the main influence on my work comes from my own life experience. My life in Australia has become a kind of exile-a deprivation of the origin of my culture and my cradle. After nearly forty years in Australia I feel a little displaced. Yet I left Europe voluntarily to escape from the very culture and history I now miss. I am experiencing a common dilemma of migration. I belong neither here nor there-a kind of dislocation. There exists a twilight zone in the in-between time-a discontinuity of my Berliner development. Artists such as Kaethe Kollwitz, John Heartfield, George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckman influenced my teenage years. Later, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz. I work with found objects, such as toys crafted by human hand. I am giving them a new meaning, a new being. They are meditations on the conflict of war, where women and children are the primary victims of political fragmentation. My sculptures evoke memories of a childhood stolen. They take on a menacing character reminding the viewer of the effects war has on humanity. But Art is the reflector and searcher; it is our way to enlightenment. Joseph Beuys introduced the concept of an expanded notion of art ("der erweiterte Kunstbegriff???) to surpass the boundaries of modernism with in art, science, spirituality, humanism and economics. He drew attention to the potential of human creativity. Art, against all odds, is poetry to life.
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Ott, Janelle (Bassoonist). "The Concerto for Bassoon by Andrzej Panufnik: Religion, Liberation, and Postmodernism." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849689/.
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The Concerto for Bassoon by Andrzej Panufnik is a valuable addition to bassoon literature. It provides a rare opportunity for the bassoon soloist to perform a piece which is strongly programmatic. The purpose of this document is to examine the historical and theoretical context of the Concerto for Bassoon with special emphasis drawn to Panufnik's understanding of religion in connection with Polish national identity and the national struggle for democratic independence galvanized by the murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. Panufnik's relationship with the Polish communist regime, both prior to and after his 1954 defection to England, is explored at length. Each of these aspects informed Panufnik's compositional approach and the expressive qualities inherent in the Concerto for Bassoon.
The Concerto for Bassoon was commissioned by the Polanki Society of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was premiered by the Milwaukee Chamber Players, with Robert Thompson as the soloist. While Panufnik intended the piece to serve as a protest against the repression of the Soviet government in Poland, the U. S. context of the commission and premiere is also examined. Additionally, the original manuscript and subsequent piano reduction are compared.
Although the Concerto for Bassoon has been subject to formal analysis by several scholars, discussion of the piece is generally contained within a larger discussion of several other compositions, and a comprehensive analysis of the piece has not yet been presented. This document contains a thorough formal analysis of all movements, as well as analysis of Panufnik's compositional style within the context of serialism, postmodernism, and the new Polish school of composition. The Concerto fro Bassoon features several devices common to Panufnik's larger opus, including the se of a common three-note cell, strong contrasts between section and movements, and symmetrical patterns of transposition, metric alteration, dynamic alteration, and registral expansion.
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Apotieri-Abdulai, Oluwadamilola. "An exploration of aspects of the South African Bill of Rights through applied drama amongst young adults (care givers) at Rena Le Lona Creative Centre for Children, Johannesburg South Africa." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19666.
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A research report submitted to the Drama for Life division of Wits School of Arts, Faculty of Humanities, for the award of the degree of Masters in Applied Drama at University of the Witwatersrand, 2015This research report evaluates an exploration of how Applied Drama methods can aid the pedagogy of Human Rights and encourage an attitude of responsibility towards human rights among young adult caregivers at the Rena la Lona Creative Centre in Soweto, South Africa. Human Rights are basic standards which inform the standard of living among people so that they live in dignity. In the context of this study, Human rights education through Applied Drama methods is the means through which people are empowered and are given a sense for responsibility. The study consisted of the use of Applied Drama methods to articulate the education of equality and Human rights. This was done through a practice-based research framework wherein the research is informed by collective practice and also relies on theoretical findings. The first chapter articulates the background and justification of study. Chapter two focuses on the literature and methodology that inform the study. Chapter three explores the research findings through an analysis of the methods used and the learning derived from the practice. Chapter four concludes with the reflection around the research results. The conclusion asserts that the explored Applied Drama methods can be used as a tool for holistic education of the South African Bill of Rights within an informal education setting such as the Rena la Lona Creative Centre.
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Kielman, Adam Joseph. "Zou Qilai!: Musical Subjectivity, Mobility, and Sonic Infrastructures in Postsocialist China." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TT4RGN.
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This dissertation is an ethnography centered around two bands based in Guangzhou and their relationships with one of China’s largest record companies. Bridging ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural geography, media studies, vocal anthropology, and the anthropology of infrastructure, it examines emergent forms of musical creativity and modes of circulation as they relate to shifts in concepts of self, space, publics, and state instigated by China’s political and economic reforms. Chapter One discusses a long history of state-sponsored cartographic musical anthologies, as well as Confucian and Maoist ways of understanding the relationships between place, person, and music. These discussions provide a context for understanding contemporary musical cosmopolitanisms that both build upon and disrupt these histories; they also provoke a rethinking of ethnomusicological and related linguistic theorizations about music, place, and subjectivity. Through biographies of seven musicians working in present-day Guangzhou, Chapter Two outlines a concept of “musical subjectivity” that looks to the intersection of personal histories, national histories, and creativity as a means of exploring the role of individual agency and expressive culture in broader cultural shifts. Chapter Three focuses on the intertwining of actual corporeal mobilities and vicarious musical mobilities, and explores relationships between circulations of global popular musics, emergent forms of musical creativity, and an evolving geography of contemporary China. Chapter Four extends these concerns to a discussion of media systems in China, and outlines an approach to “sonic infrastructures” that puts sound studies in dialogue with the anthropology of infrastructure in order to understand how evolving modes of musical circulation and the listening practices associated with them are connected to broader economic, political, and cultural spatialities. Finally, Chapter Five examines the intersecting aesthetic and political implications of popular music sung in local languages (fangyan) by focusing on contemporary forms of articulation between music, language, listening, and place. Taken together, these chapters explore musical cosmopolitanisms as knowledge-making processes that are reconfiguring notions of self, state, publics, and space in contemporary China.
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Arjomand, Minou. "Theatre on Trial: Staging Postwar Justice in the United States and Germany." Thesis, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VM4BK8.
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This dissertation studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's 1954 production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and the fifteen simultaneous premiere productions of Peter Weiss's "The Investigation" in 1965, I show how directors and playwrights looked to legal trials in order to develop and articulate theories of epic and documentary theatre, and how this new theatre in turn sought to effect justice in ways that trials alone could not.
Books on the topic "Political aspects of Musical theater"
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Musiktheater in Regensburg im Zeitalter des Immerwährenden Reichstages. Sinzig: Studio Verlag, 2008.
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Künstler, Bürger, Obrigkeit: Hagener Musik- und Theaterpolitik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Münster: Agenda, 1999.
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Doll, Jürgen. Theater im Roten Wien: Vom sozialdemokratischen Agitprop zum dialektischen Theater Jura Soyfers. Wien: Böhlau, 1997.
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Kohtes, Martin Maria. Guerilla Theater: Theorie und Praxis des politischen Strassentheaters in den USA (1965-1970). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990.
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Harlekin im Stasiland: Report eines Leipziger "Pfeffermüllers". Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1994.
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Lehmann, Mathias. Der Dreissigjährige Krieg im Musiktheater während der NS-Zeit: Untersuchungen zu politischen Aspekten der Musik am Beispiel von Karl Amadeus Hartmanns Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend, Ludwig Mauricks Simplicius Simplicissimus, Richard Mohaupts Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche, Eberhard Wolfgang Möllers und Hans Joachim Sobanskis Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel und Joseph Gregors und Richard Strauss' Friedenstag. Hamburg: Von Bockel, 2004.
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Juvenals Irrtum: Über die Antinomie der Satire und des politischen Kabaretts. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1985.
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Bouzar-Kasbadji, Nadya. L' émergence artistique algérienne au XXe siècle: Contribution de la musique et du théâtre algérois à la renaissance culturelle et à la prise de conscience nationaliste. Ben Aknoun, Alger: Office des publications universitaires, 1988.
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Vogel, Benedikt. Fiktionskulisse: Poetik und Geschichte des Kabaretts. Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1993.
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Siwe, Thomas. "Music-Theater." In Artful Noise, 118–35. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043130.003.0009.
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In the late 1960s, a renewed focus on the theatrical aspects of musical performance merged with the political and social concerns of the times to create a new genre, music-theater. For percussionists, theatricality is inherent in the action used to play their instruments. Recognizing this, composers created works that incorporated various aspects of theater, designating these new compositions as mixed- or multimedia, intermedia, or music-theater. Examples of this genre are discussed in this chapter beginning with the works of the American maverick composer Harry Partch, who not only created the music, but also built the instruments used in his productions. The genre is defined further through a description of the works of composers Benjamin Johnston, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean-Pierre Drouet, and Michael Udow. Each percussion composition described is unique, incorporating theatrical components such as lighting, stage actions, improvisation, electronics, film, set design, and other elements.
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"Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik." In Elementary Aspects of the Political, 44–64. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1d82hjv.6.
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"Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik." In Elementary Aspects of the Political, 44–64. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1d82hjv.6.
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"Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik." In Elementary Aspects of the Political, 44–63. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478012443-004.
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"2 Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik." In Elementary Aspects of the Political, 44–64. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781478012443-004.
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Adolphe, Bruce. "Exercises Using Musical Instruments." In The Mind's Ear, 61–121. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197576311.003.0004.
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This section requires the use of musical instruments for all the exercises, some for soloists and others for ensembles of various sizes. All of these exercises are improvisations, yet the focus is not on the idea of improvisation itself, but on specific dramatic or emotional goals. Improvisation in this chapter may signify dramatic rather than musical improvisation. Several of the exercises address the art of interpretating existing music and require spontaneity and imagination but do not ask for the participant to improvise music. Acting techniques, such as those developed by the Group Theater, are here repurposed for musicians in order to address aspects of memory, emotion, and imagination and to inspire new ways of thinking about performing, such as playing with the actor’s concept of subtext or gibberish from a musician’s perspective. New exercises included here are inspired by sampling and robots, plus a new series of exercises in this edition includes the improv comedy techniques of Nichols and May as a template for musical spontaneity.
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Guillaumier, Christina. "Drama, Theater, and Gesture in the Operas of Sergei Prokofiev." In Rethinking Prokofiev, 233–52. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190670764.003.0014.
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This chapter explores Prokofiev’s processes, compositional strategies, and theatrical instinct as evident in his operatic works. Each of the eight operas discussed tells a different story about Prokofiev’s context, aesthetic, and compositional procedures; in each, he explores different musical, dramaturgical, and artistic possibilities. While the soundscapes of the earlier operas are different from those of his Soviet period, his musical voice remains distinctive. He was passionate about the stage and had much to say about opera in the twentieth century, but his innovative and radical ideas were often obscured by political and social contexts. Prokofiev’s operatic vision centered on characterization, visualization, and textual emancipation. His most significant contribution to the twentieth century’s operatic stage was dramatic realism, based on what he called “theatrical rhythm,” with his use of declamation to replace set pieces and ensembles.
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Weiss, Naomi A. "Introduction." In Music of Tragedy. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295902.003.0001.
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Greek tragedy was musical theater, but only silent texts remain. The introduction demonstrates the central role of music and dance within this art form, and in doing so, it offers a critical rethinking of Aristotle’s apparent disregard for choral song in the Poetics. Discussing the tendency to link the language of Euripides’s late plays to contemporary musical trends (the “New Music”), it urges a reevaluation of his mousikē, one that both takes more account of the traditional aspects of his lyric compositions and considers them within the dramatic context of the plays themselves. Outlining the different types of evidence available for the analysis of tragedy’s musical element, it also explains the book’s focus on the interplay of text and performance.
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Budasz, Rogério. "Uses." In Opera in the Tropics, 297–356. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190215828.003.0007.
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This chapter investigates the uses and functions of musical theater within the sociopolitical fabric of Portuguese America. It examines its role in the narratives produced in the context of civic festivals and literary academies and how these texts and practices engaged individuals from all layers of colonial society as subjects of the Portuguese empire. It also considers the civilian and political uses of theater as an ideological tool, a means of acquiring and maintaining symbolic capital, and in some cases even a distraction from the wrongdoings of colonial administrators. The last section of the chapter deals with the presence of the Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro at the dawn of independence, when theater became the locus of political and aesthetic controversies that placed newly arrived Portuguese and local Brazilians on opposite sides. The controversy surrounding the drama O juramento dos numes is at the core of this discussion.
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Bernstein, Zachary. "Poetic Form and Psychological Portraiture in Babbitt’s Early Texted Works." In Thinking In and About Music, 125–95. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949235.003.0005.
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In five early texted works—“The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” Du, Two Sonnets, Vision and Prayer, and Philomel—Babbitt uses a variety of means to project both poetic form and the psychological life of the characters represented. Trichordal derivation is used to model metaphors of reference, dependency, and layers of psychological action. Divergences between voice and accompaniment can also create layers of agency and implication. In several instances, Babbitt’s desire to reflect the meaning of texts leads him to musical structures that depart from the practice and principles he develops in his instrumental work. Moreover, in all five of these pieces, poetic form—the sonic, syntactic, and visual aspects of poetry—is projected in numerous ways; this is shown to derive from Babbitt’s youthful career in musical theater. Some ways involve the coordination of serial and poetic articulation, and some involve non-serial musical dimensions.
Conference papers on the topic "Political aspects of Musical theater"
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Poulios, A., A. Iliadis, and M. Seiragakis. "Satirical song in the Greek theater of the 20th century: aspects of political and social criticism - identity issues - stylistics." In VI Международная научная конференция по эллинистике памяти И.И. Ковалевой. Москва: Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52607/9785190116113_213.
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Aliel, Luzilei, Rafael Fajiolli, and Ricardo Thomasi. "Tecnofagia: A Multimodal Rite." In Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbcm.2019.10454.
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This is a concert proposal of Brazilian digital art, which brings in its creative core the historical and cultural aspects of certain locations in Brazil. The term Tecnofagia derives from an allusion to the concept of anthropophagic movement (artistic movement started in the twentieth century founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral). The anthropophagic movement was a metaphor for a goal of cultural swallowing where foreign culture would not be denied but should not be imitated. In his notes, Oswald de Andrade proposes the "cultural devouring of imported techniques to re-elaborate them autonomously, turning them into an export product." The Tecnofagia project is a collaborative creative and collective performance group that seeks to broaden aspects of live electronic music, video art, improvisation and performance, taking them into a multimodal narrative context with essentially Brazilian sound elements such as:accents and phonemes; instrumental tones; soundscapes; historical, political and cultural contexts. In this sense, Tecnofagia tries to go beyond techniques and technologies of interactive performance, as it provokes glances for a Brazilian art-technological miscegenation. That is, it seeks emergent characteristics of the encounters between media, art, spaces, culture, temporalities, objects, people and technologies, at the moment of performance.