MAJOR ORAL: Music and Theatre
-examines various forms of musical or “lyrical” theater from opera and operetta and ballet to ballad opera and vaudeville and popular musical theatre to nondramatic musical performances, consider the relationship between music and drama, music and character, music and plot, music and the self, music and performativity etc; not to mention music and performance
MINOR ORAL 1: Theory and Politics
-examines the relationship between critical theory and politics (and theory and sociology, I think as well) - what is the relationship between thinking and doing, between feeling and acting, and how does one judge individual behavior from a lens that is both left-leaning and theoretical? - might want to also consider the relationship between representation and the political
MINOR ORAL 2: Melodrama
-though probably outside of my dissertation field, this will allow me to A) become expert in a period of theatrical history that I want to be able to teach but currently can’t (i.e. both the melodrama form and 18th/19th-century theatrical culture; B) allow me another cite to think about the relationship between dramatic form and politics; and C) make available an important historical precursor to the plot structures of many musicals
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