How modern audiences can talk about aging art | Margaret Hall

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Some works of art stand the test of time; others don't age as well. Using American musical theater as her case study, theater historian Margaret Hall shares a framework of five categories to talk about how art does (and doesn't) remain useful across generations -- encouraging us to address the "growing pains" that all art faces as time and culture moves on.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Docs Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.8	Musical theater has been around my entire life and the entire life of my grandparents.
0:19.4	It's aging as an art form.
0:22.0	So theater historian Margaret Hall asks us how we should approach aging and outdated musicals
0:27.7	from yesterday.
0:29.2	In her 2022 talk from Ted X Broadway, she uses theater pieces to reflect on what age
0:34.9	as well and what doesn't in our culture.
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