CFP: StageStruck! 6: Women and the Musical, Washington D.C., 14-16 May 2025

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CFP: StageStruck! 6: Women and the American Musical

Convenor: Dominic Broomfield-McHugh and the Library of Congress Music Division

Committee: Mark Eden Horowitz, Caitlin Miller, Colleen Montgomery, Stacy Wolf

LOCATION: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

DATES: 14-16 May 2025

This special edition of StageStruck! at the Library of Congress will focus on the latest scholarship related to women in and around the American musical in all formats and media, and will showcase the Library’s rich collections related to the subject. The committee interprets the conference theme broadly; possible topics for presentations may include:

• Women as book writers, lyricists, composers, and screenwriters
• The representation of women in musicals
• Performers and performance
• Women as producers, directors, lighting designers, set designers, arrangers, orchestrators, musical directors, and other creative figures
• The experience of women working in and around musicals
• Intersectionality and feminist theory
• Women as audience members
• Women involved in promoting and advertising musicals
• Women performing songs from musicals outside of context (e.g. Ella Fitzgerald’s songbook albums)

PROPOSALS and DEADLINE: Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion) or for a 90-minute pre-constituted panel (three papers + discussion) should be submitted to d.mchugh -at- sheffield.ac.uk by 19 August 2024. Engagement with the Library of Congress’s collections in proposals is very welcome but not required. Proposals should be 250 words for a standard presentation or 500 words for a panel.

WEBSITE: Find more details online at https://stagestruckconference.com/cfp-stagestruck-6-women-and-the-american-musical/

Please direct any questions about the conference to Dr. Dominic Broomfield-McHugh at d.mchugh -at- sheffield.ac.uk