Musical Theatre and All That Jazz Research Network

音乐剧和爵士乐研究网络

• 批准号: AH/T006447/1
• 负责人: George Burrows
• 金额: $ 4.61万
• 依托单位: University of Portsmouth
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT006447%2F1
• 关键词: Musical; Theatre; Jazz; Research; Network

This research network brings together a new group of scholars to interact with practitioners, industry figures and the public as they explore new avenues for research, practice and understanding that emanate from examining interconnections between musical theatre and jazz.Musical theatre and jazz are most often studied, practiced and produced separately but they have shared origins, characteristics and discourses. These intersecting histories and features are sometimes mentioned in passing in the critical literature but their potential for extending knowledge and developing new methodologies remains obscured by the separation of forms. By researching intersections and interactions between forms and considering what they might mean for understandings both within, across and beyond disciplines, the research of this network will produce new interdisciplinary conceptualisations, methodologies and practices that have implications that extend beyond developing academic knowledge to address issues of contemporary practice, the creative industries and audiences. In reflection of the increasingly involved and global character of both musical theatre and jazz and their study, the network's core membership is both multidisciplinary and international in its makeup, including scholars from Europe, the USA and southeast Asia as well as from the UK. The network will meet at three one-day workshops, staged in Portsmouth, Birmingham and Munich, that aim to provoke productive cross-disciplinary critical discussion around set themes. These themed workshops are deliberately located within venues that facilitate the engagement and interaction of differently interested audiences of academics, industry figures, practitioners and the public with network debates and activities. They aid impactful working, which is a core aim of the network.A vital element in developing impactful cross-disciplinary knowledge generation is a practice-research project that is integrated within the network. This will bring together jazz musicians with musical theatre practitioners to explore the forging of a common language between disciplines in the process of creating a new work-in-progress 'Jazzical' - an experimental form mixing jazz and musical theatre practices and understandings. This project will inform network debates as much as it is informed by them. It is designed to offer new insights and methodologies stemming from the nexus of forms in practice, partly to address industry concerns for fresh and interesting musical-theatrical productions that are on a suitable scale for small- and mid-scale venues like Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal (host venue for the first network meeting) and of interest to festivals like the 'Biennale' in Munich (the location for the last network meeting). The network will produce a series of public events attached to the three network workshops, an edited volume of scholarship, a work-in-progress theatre piece and associated online and video materials. It is designed to engender much lively debate that extends beyond academia through the public and industry engagement activities associated with the workshops and the network's online platform. The network aims to situate these emergent things within a context of the historical and social discourses that underpin the intersections between musical theatre and jazz. Eminent keynote speakers from the UK and the US have thus been selected and approached for their proven ability to offer discourses that extend across disciplines and to speak to industry practices and the public.In bringing this new and diverse network together to explore this unmapped interdisciplinary terrain, it is hoped that new research territory and modes of inquiry will emerge which will lead to an application to the AHRC to support further work in this neglected but exciting, potentially fruitful and highly impactful area.

这个研究网络汇集了一群新的学者，与实践者、行业人士和公众互动，因为他们探索了研究、实践和理解的新途径，这些途径来自于研究音乐剧和爵士乐之间的相互联系。音乐剧和爵士乐通常是分开研究、实践和制作的，但它们有着共同的起源、特点和话语。这些交叉的历史和特征有时在批评文献中被提及，但它们扩展知识和发展新方法的潜力仍然被形式的分离所掩盖。通过研究形式之间的交叉点和相互作用，并考虑它们对学科内外的理解可能意味着什么，该网络的研究将产生新的跨学科概念、方法和实践，这些概念、方法和实践的含义将超出发展学术知识的范围，以解决当代实践、创意产业和受众的问题。鉴于音乐剧和爵士乐及其研究的日益深入和全球化特征，该网络的核心成员既具有多学科性质，又具有国际性，包括来自欧洲、美国、东南亚和英国的学者。该网络将在朴茨茅斯、伯明翰和慕尼黑举行为期一天的研讨会，旨在围绕既定主题引发富有成效的跨学科批判性讨论。这些主题研讨会特意设置在场地内，方便不同兴趣的学者、行业人士、从业者和公众参与网络辩论和活动。它们有助于有影响力的工作，这是该网络的核心目标。发展有影响力的跨学科知识产生的一个重要因素是一个整合在网络中的实践研究项目。这将把爵士音乐家和音乐剧从业者聚集在一起，探索在创造一种新的正在进行的“爵士乐”的过程中，在学科之间建立一种共同的语言——一种混合爵士乐和音乐剧实践和理解的实验形式。这个项目将为网络辩论提供信息，就像网络辩论为它提供信息一样。它旨在从实践中形式的联系中提供新的见解和方法，部分是为了解决行业对新鲜有趣的音乐戏剧作品的关注，这些作品适合中小型场地，如朴茨茅斯的新皇家剧院（第一次网络会议的举办地），以及慕尼黑的“双年展”（最后一次网络会议的举办地）等节日。该网络将制作附属于三个网络讲习班的一系列公共活动、一本已编辑的学术文集、一部正在制作的戏剧作品以及相关的在线和视频材料。它旨在通过与研讨会和网络在线平台相关的公众和行业参与活动，引发学术界以外的热烈辩论。该网络旨在将这些新兴事物置于音乐剧和爵士乐交汇的历史和社会话语的背景下。因此，来自英国和美国的杰出主题演讲者被选中并被邀请，因为他们有能力提供跨学科的演讲，并向行业实践和公众发表演讲。在将这个新的和多样化的网络聚集在一起探索这个未被绘制的跨学科领域的过程中，希望新的研究领域和调查模式将会出现，这将导致向AHRC提出申请，以支持在这个被忽视但令人兴奋的、潜在的富有成效和高度影响的领域的进一步工作。