JS 311 - 21st Century Broadway Musical

This Seminar examines recent Broadway musicals and musical-theater works that challenge ideas about that musical genre. Some of these works address potentially disturbing or offensive topics, others violate norms of representation in musical theater, or expand the range of musical theater into novel realms of music and subject matter. In class, we will ask questions about the interaction between popular entertainment and social issues. To what extent can and should theater break taboos or offend? How do music, musical style, and songs change the way the messages of theater, culture, and even activism are delivered and received?

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors Only

Core: Junior Seminar

Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: Music