[Candrama] Book Publication Announcement - Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance

[Tan Cheng Chye Marcus (Assoc Prof)]

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for the cross-posting.

Sharing a new publication:
Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-08584-9> (Palgrave, 2026)

About the Book
Situated at the interstice of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality:  Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music. The book establishes theatrimusicality as a hermeneutic apparatus and a dramaturgical approach to examining these works of the ‘in-between’ that defy neat taxonomies. Examining the co-transformative inter-workings, where the musical frames the theatrical even as the theatrical fashions the musical, Tan demonstrates how theatrimusicality allows new ways of meaning-making and analysis. The book also introduces an accompanying concept of spectaurality, a mode of reception that involves ‘seeing’ musicality and ‘listening’ to theatricality. Encountering performance spectaurally engenders alternative interpretive and affective experiences. Through deep analyses of a range of performances from varying cultures and contexts, Theatrimusicality encourages an appreciation of the co-presence of listening and seeing where perception becomes intertwined and relational.

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Regards,
Marcus


Marcus TAN (Dr) | Associate Professor | Visual and Performing Arts | National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University | Chair, NIE Visiting Artist Programme<https://www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/about-us/academic-departments/visual-and-performing-arts/visiting-artist-programme> | Programme Leader, Practicum | Assistant Editor, Theatre Research International<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-research-international> (Taylor and Francis) | Secretary-General (Communications)<https://www.iftr.org/organisation/executive-committee>, International Federation for Theatre Research |
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Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye, Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, Feb 2026) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-08584-9
Forthcoming:
Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye, ‘What’s in a Name: The (Un)Making of a Singapore Theatre Company’, Theatre Research International 51.1 (Mar 2026)
Havelkova, Tereza and Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Music Theater and Politics: Restaging Histories, Decentering Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Duffy, Peter, Beth Murray, Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare, Zeki Ozer, Richard Sallis, Chris Summers, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan and Wang Wan-jung, Devising in Times of Crisis: Practices for a Post-Pandemic World (Routledge, 2026)

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