The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-1-2018 Male Belting: An Exploration of Technique and Style From 1967 to Current Bruce Earnest University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Music Performance Commons, and the Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Earnest, Bruce, "Male Belting: An Exploration of Technique and Style From 1967 to Current" (2018). Dissertations. 1489. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1489 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Male Belting: An Exploration of Technique and Style from 1967 to Present by Bruce A. Earnest Jr. A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School, the College of Arts and Letters and the School of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Approved by: Dr. Maryann Kyle, Committee Chair Dr. Christopher Goertzen Dr. Susan Ruggiero Dr. Douglas Rust Dr. Jonathan Yarrington ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Dr. Maryann Kyle Dr. Richard Kravchak Dr. Karen S. Coats Committee Chair Department Chair Dean of the Graduate School May 2018 COPYRIGHT BY Bruce A. Earnest Jr. 2018 Published by the Graduate School ABSTRACT Male belting is found in many different stylistic forms of musical theatre repertoire. Its evolution began in the late 1960s with the emergence of the rock musical phenomenon and the early musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber.