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Todd Decker, Genre and Race in the Broadway Musical (1970-2020): A Quantitative, Performer-Centered Approach
Feb 9, 2024
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
93 East Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
Prof. Todd Decker (Washington University in St. Louis) will speak about his quantitative study, which accounts for the racial casting practices evident in every musical production mounted in a Broadway theater between 1970 and 2020. This data reveals the shifting opportunities for performers of color as found in the production history of three central subgenres of the commercial musical stage: jukebox musicals, film adaptations, and revivals. The digital humanities methods behind this paper are broadly applicable to any sustained, geographically-fixed live performance realm.
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