Episode 8 is out and our hosts have a conversation with guest Dr. Bill Gelber about overlapping ideas and practices when working with vernacular traditions. Dr. Gelber discuss theater, elaborating on history, practices, and his own experiences with this type of art, while Chris and Roger make connections with their own experiences with music and culture. VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER, hosted by Chris Smith and Roger Landes, with funding from the Texas Tech University Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Join Roger and Chris as they range across the centuries and around the worlds of oral-tradition music and dance, with guests along the way!
Intro - 0:00
Part I, Practices in Theater - 01:28
Part II, Community in Theater - 32:39
Outro - 01:02:29
Dr. Bill Gelber is an Associate Professor of Theatre who teaches acting, directing, pedagogy, and period styles, including Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He has a Ph.D. in Theatre History from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with Oscar Brockett. He has been published in the Brecht Yearbook, Communications of the International Brecht Society, Southern Theatre Journal, Texas Theatre Journal, and Early Modern Literary Studies. His essay, “A Ha in Shakespeare” appears in Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom. His book Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the 21st Century is to be published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Dr. Gelber was recently inducted into the Texas Tech University Teaching Academy and is an Integrated Scholar.