[ecrea] CFP Song, Stage and Screen XII: Musical Multiplicity

CALL FOR PAPERS

*SONG, STAGE AND SCREEN XII*

19 – 22 JUNE 2017

At

GUILDFORD SCHOOL OF ACTING, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, GUILDFORD, UK.

*MUSICAL MULTIPLICITY *

In recent years the influence of singer-songwriters, tv shows, jukebox 
musicals and politics have challenged the perceived homogeneity of 
musical theatre, showtunes and the Hollywood musical.

in a period in which societal diversities are under threat, musical 
theatre and film exhibits new multiplicities of subject matter, modes of 
storytelling, and production styles. Simultaneously, artists with varied 
backgrounds from singer-songwriters to practitioners in verbatim or 
physical theatre are creating musical theatre which challenges accepted 
methodologies for creating musicals. Additionally, digital media allows 
for new platforms for the performance, delivery and marketing of musical 
theatre; raising a challenge to the very nature of the artform.

This conference considers and celebrates all facets of multiplicity in 
musical theatre and musical film; from staging concepts challenging the 
traditional proscenium, to musical styles from /Hamilton/ to /La La 
Land/. Papers might consider how diversities have created developments 
in musical storytelling throughout history, and how revivals are 
informed by later innovations unimaginable at the time of the original 
production.

Topics for papers and presentations may include, but are not restricted to:

  * Musical multiplicities
  * Diversities of platform; beyond the stage and screen
  * Staging diversities
  * Choreographic multiplicities
  * The challenge to societal diversity and the response of musical
    theatre/film
  * Gender diversities in the musical,
  * The challenge to the traditional ‘showtune’
  * Diverse methodologies of developing musicals; beyond the workshop
  * Developing new audiences in musical theatre
Papers should be designed to last no more than 20 minutes.Please send an 
abstract of no more than 200 words for blind peer review (your name 
should not appear anywhere in the proposal) to the conference convenor, 
Julian Woolford, Head of Musical Theatre at GSA: 
(j.woolford /at/ gsa.surrey.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.woolford /at/ gsa.surrey.ac.uk)>with the 
subject heading “Song, Stage and Screen XII”.

The deadline for proposals is Saturday, February 4 2017.

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