Appel de conférences pour le colloque « Actors, singers and celebrity cultures across the centuries », University of Surrey, 12-14 juin 2025.
« Actors and singers have been traditionally at the centre of histories of spoken theatre, opera, musical theatre, popular music genres, film and other media. Through the embodied nature of their performance, they have always reflected and shaped manifold cultural and social practices.
With the emergence and development of Western celebrity cultures from at least the 16th century (Kerr 2015; Adams 2022) to the present, these stage professions began to exert new and more overt forms of cultural influence on society. Over time, the rise of media technologies and their global circulation––from printing, photography and sound recording to radio, cinema, television and social media––have continued to provide singers and actors with new tools for fashioning their public and private personas. By the same token, their acts of performance have also continuously adapted to the incoming technologies in ways that remain mostly under-explored. »
Date limite de soumission : 28 février 2025.
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