Musical Theatre and All That Jazz Research Network

这个研究网络汇集了一批新的学者与从业者，行业人士和公众互动，因为他们探索研究，实践和理解的新途径，从研究音乐剧和爵士乐之间的相互联系中产生。音乐剧和爵士乐通常被单独研究，实践和制作，但它们有共同的起源，特点和话语。这些交叉的历史和特征有时在批判性文献中被提及，但它们扩展知识和开发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，跨学科和跨学科的理解可能意味着什么，这个网络的研究将产生新的跨学科概念，方法和实践，其影响超出了发展学术知识，以解决当代实践，创意产业和受众的问题。为了反映音乐剧和爵士乐及其研究日益参与和全球化的特征，该网络的核心成员在组成上既多学科又国际化，包括来自欧洲、美国、东南亚以及英国的学者。该网络将在朴茨茅斯、伯明翰和慕尼黑举行三次为期一天的研讨会，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在场地内，以促进学术界、行业人士、从业人员和公众等不同兴趣的受众参与网络辩论和活动并进行互动。他们帮助有影响力的工作，这是网络的核心目标。在发展有影响力的跨学科知识生成的一个重要因素是一个实践研究项目，是集成在网络中。这将使爵士音乐家与音乐剧从业者聚集在一起，探索在创建一个新的正在进行的“爵士乐”的过程中，学科之间的共同语言的锻造-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，就像它们提供信息一样。它的目的是提供新的见解和方法，源于实践中的形式关系，部分是为了解决行业关注的新鲜和有趣的音乐戏剧制作，在一个适当的规模为中小型场地，如朴茨茅斯的新剧院皇家（主办地点为第一次网络会议）和感兴趣的节日，如'双年展'在慕尼黑（最后一次网络会议的位置）。该网络将制作一系列与三个网络讲习班有关的公共活动、一本经编辑的学术文集、一部正在创作的戏剧作品以及相关的在线和视频材料。其目的是通过与讲习班和网络在线平台有关的公众和行业参与活动，引发超出学术界的热烈辩论。该网络旨在将这些新兴事物置于历史和社会话语的背景下，这些话语支撑着音乐剧和爵士乐之间的交叉点。因此，来自英国和美国的著名主题演讲者被选中，并被邀请，因为他们有能力提供跨学科的话语，并与行业实践和公众对话。在将这个新的多元化网络聚集在一起，探索这个未映射的跨学科领域时，希望新的研究领域和调查模式将出现，这将导致向AHRC提出申请，以支持在这一被忽视但令人兴奋的领域进一步开展工作，潜在的富有成效和高度影响力的领域。

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.