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Teaching HAMILTON 0 L. MacDonald The ATHE conference wrapped up in Chicago on Sunday with a multidisciplinary session, "Hamilton: The Development, Casting, and Performance of a New American Musical," coordinated by Trevor Boffone and sponsored by MTD and by the Latina/o Focus Group (newly changed to the Latinx, Indigenous, and the Americas Focus Group).   A key theme of the papers and subsequent discussion was the challenge in thinking critically about Hamilton with our students, as a number of issues were raised around future academic and spectator engagement with this musical. These included but are not limited to: the role of slavery in the characters' lives and the absence of slaves in the production, colour-blind/non-traditional casting, composer-writer-actor Lin Manuel Miranda's status as a privileged male of colour, Miranda's accolades vs the contributions of his talented collaborators, the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, the tradition of hip hop musicals, the musical's bootstraps narrative, and gender stereotypes. You can consult the hashtag #alexanderpanelton for more coverage on the panel and the discussion: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=alexanderpanelton&src=typd   Several useful resources for teaching and research were referenced, including #Syllabus4Ham, a reading list curated by Trevor Boffone with sections on Criticism, Perspectives, Ham4Ham, and Interviews (with Alex Lacamoire, Javier Muñoz, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Lin-Manuel Miranda): https://trevorboffone.com/2016/06/02/syllabus4ham-the-hamilton-syllabus/   The Podcast, Pod4Ham, features track by track discussions of the Hamilton cast recording with different groups of people and can be accessed here: https://www.theincomparable.com/pod4ham/   Blogger, arts advocate, and Ham4Ham videographer Howard Sherman was referenced by several presenters and his Hamilton blog posts are available here: http://www.hesherman.com/tag/hamilton/  
by L. MacDonald
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Syllabi Bank from MTD Website Part 2 0 Tracey Chessum Here is the second half of the MTD website syllabi!
by Tracey Chessum
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Syllabi Bank from MTD Website Part 1 0 Tracey Chessum Colleagues- We have been working to move all the content from our MTD website to ATHE's new content manager, and I'm pleased to say that our MTD syllabi bank is now available!  These were collected quite a while ago, so if you have additional syllabi you would like to add, please feel free to email them to me at traceychessum@gmail.com, and I will upload them for general use.   The Syllabi Bank can always be found by clicking on the "Resources" icon on the upper right hand side of your screen; however, I will continue to update this forum as we move forward! Thanks, Tracey Elaine Chessum, webmaster.    
by Tracey Chessum
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Teaching non-majors musical theatre as a special topics course 1 L. MacDonald Here is my syllabus for Social Themes in the American Musical, an upper-level seminar for undergraduates at Eugene Lang College-The New School.
by D. Galella, University of California, Riverside
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

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