Event overview
Performance Research Forum (PRF) hosts another excellent line-up of talks and events. These free events will take place on Zoom, and can be booked through Eventbrite.
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED.
In musical theatre, “integration” refers to the principle that all of the elements—narrative, music, dance, design, and so forth—should be seamlessly blended. I explore the raced origins of this philosophy through the ideas of Rouben Mamoulian, the influential director of Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Porgy and Bess. I show how Mamoulian’s aesthetic of ‘integration’, which he trumpeted as distinctly American, in fact came directly from his training in Moscow. Yet, he modulated this idea into an American context by exploiting pernicious stereotypes about African-Americans. I conclude by showing how this framing related to his own identity as an American immigrant.
Bradley Rogers is Lecturer in Musical Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, and author of The Song is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance, which was named finalist for the George Freedley Award and the Barnard Hewitt Award.
Dates & times
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| 15 Mar 2022 | 6:15pm - 7:30pm |
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