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Stagestruck! Session 3: Black Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre

Ealey, Jordan

Music

At the Library of Congress

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Chaired by Michelle Scott (Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County), this panel featured three lectures: Jordan Ealey, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Rochester: The (Drama)turgy of Black Life: Zora Neale Hurston’s Experiments in Sound Elea Proctor, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University: Lessons from the Archive: Rethinking John W. Isham’s Black Chorus Girls art of the sixth StageStruck! Conference: “Women and the American Musical,” a three-day conference May 14-16, 2025, hosted by the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

The centrality of women to the American musical on stage and screen has long been acknowledged by scholarship. This special edition of StageStruck! at the Library of Congress focused on the latest research related to women in and around the American musical in all formats and media, and showcased the Library’s rich collections related to the subject.

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