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Missed Opportunity? Vocal Arts and Music Entrepreneurship Education
Katherine Sadler
  • Dec 22, 2020

Missed Opportunity? Vocal Arts and Music Entrepreneurship Education

Katherine Sadler makes the case for arts entrepreneurship education in our schools as a critical space for vocal students to collaborate...
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It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings and Dances: How Weight Bias Damages the Performing Arts
Cindy Sadler
  • Dec 15, 2020

It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings and Dances: How Weight Bias Damages the Performing Arts

(Pictured: Tracy Cox, Soprano and fat politics activist). "Centering thin bodies and excluding fat ones limits the range of expression...
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Excluded, Penalized, Indebted, Harassed: A Study of Systemic Discrimination Against Women in Opera
Zach Finkelstein
  • Nov 23, 2020

Excluded, Penalized, Indebted, Harassed: A Study of Systemic Discrimination Against Women in Opera

By Zach Finkelstein, Dana Lynne Varga, and Hillary LaBonte Women face extraordinary odds of success in the opera world, from the...
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