# StageStruck! Session 6: Women, Voice, Power

Chaired by Hannah Lewis, this panel featured three lectures: Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Acting Head of the School of Music at the University of Auckland: “I can sing everything from popular music to grand opera”: Deanna Durbin, Power, and Musical Structure Nathan Platte, Associate Professor in Musicology and Film History at the University of Iowa: Behind the Bamboo Tree: Listening to Sally Benson’s “Meet Me in St. Louis” Kristen Turner, Lecturer in the Department of Performing Arts and Technology at North Carolina State University: Unruly Women and Respectable Ladies: Vocal Timbre and Stock Characters in Early Musical Comedies Part 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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 h 35 min
- By: Camp, Gregory
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10924/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-10924?play=1)