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MUTH 251 Issues in Music Theatre Units: 3.00
An introduction to the ways that vaudeville, cabaret, operetta, opera, and musical theatre serve as multi-layered sites of political consequence. By placing these works in dialogue with studies in race, cultural politics, queerness, disability, and aesthetics, students will understand music theatre's potential for intervention in our world.
NOTE Transportation/Live Performance: estimated cost $100.
NOTE Transportation/Live Performance: estimated cost $100.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze primary source materials in order to make inferences about the politics of the historical production of opera and musical theatre in Kingston.
- Apply critical theory to the analysis of music theatre performance, and articulate why this is a valuable practice.
- Explain how the various components of music theatre contribute to its complex messages and meanings.
- Hone more critically tuned listening and viewing skills.
- List, compare, and critique ways in which historical and contemporary works engage with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and disability, and identify evidence of their being reflective of their socio-cultural context.
- Survey and report on the literature on decolonization in the arts, compare ways that decolonization has been engaged with in musical theatre and opera, and anticipate ways that materials, relationships, and productions in the field might be better adapted or disrupted to integrate this knowledge.