Song, Stage, & Screen IV
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Call for Papers
International Conference
SONG, STAGE & SCREEN IV
Interdisciplinary approaches to the musical stage
200-word abstract due June 15
December 3-5, 2009
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities &
The Department of Theatre
University of Maryland, College Park
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Department of Theater at the University of Maryland, College Park invite submissions for the fourth annual international and interdisciplinary conference on musical and music theatre. Papers on any topic relating to the intersection of music and theatre or film are welcomed. Suggested topics include:
Collaboration and the creation of the musical
Musical theatre texts
Musical theatre archives
Teaching the musical
Representations of race and gender in the musical
Critical and audience reception of the musical
Please send abtsracts of no more than 200 words to Doug Reside <dreside@umd.edu> by June 15
Song, Stage and Screen is the annual conference of the academic journal, Studies in Musical Theatre, which is published by Intellect Press. Previous Song, Stage and Screen conferences have been held at the University of Portsmouth, UK (2006), University of Leeds, UK (2007), and the Graduate Center of City University of New York (2008). It is expected that a selection of papers from this joint conference will be invited for submission to the journal and publication. This year’s conference is organized by Doug Reside (University of Maryland) and Laura Pollard (University of East Anglia).