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Theater, Performance, and Music History

Theater, Performance, and Music History is a research topic within Music. Science Explorer counts 7.1k research works in it since 1950. 12.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution and cultural significance of American musical theatre, including its intersection with melodrama, operetta, identity, democracy, race, and gender. It delves into the historical, social, and artistic dimensions of Broadway productions and their impact on popular culture.

  • American Musical Theatre
  • Melodrama
  • Broadway
  • The Wire
  • Operetta
  • Identity
  • Cultural Studies
  • Democracy
  • Race
  • Gender
Research works
7.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
900
per year above
Top-10% rate
12.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+7%
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Which countries lead Theater, Performance, and Music History research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (407 and 199 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 407 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 199 works
  3. 3 Canada 48 works
  4. 4 China 45 works
  5. 5 Australia 41 works
  6. 6 India 36 works
  7. 7 France 33 works
  8. 8 Germany 29 works
  9. 9 Spain 25 works
  10. 10 Italy 25 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 45.9%United Kingdom: 22.5%Canada: 5.4%China: 5.0%6 others listed: 21.3%46%largest
United States407 · 45.9%United Kingdom199 · 22.5%Canada48 · 5.4%China45 · 5.0%6 others listed189 · 21.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Theater, Performance, and Music History research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Film Independent publishes the most Theater, Performance, and Music History research, followed by University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 14 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 10 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 10 works
  4. 4 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works
  5. 5 Oxford Brookes UniversityUnited Kingdom 8 works
  6. 6 Texas Tech UniversityUnited States 7 works
  7. 7 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 6 works
  9. 9 Goldsmiths University of LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  10. 10 Cornell UniversityUnited States 6 works

Where is Theater, Performance, and Music History research done?

The largest centres of Theater, Performance, and Music History research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Oxford (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Los Angeles.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 35 works
  2. 2 New York United States 27 works
  3. 3 Los Angeles United States 23 works
  4. 4 Oxford United Kingdom 20 works
  5. 5 Paris France 12 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C. United States 10 works
  7. 7 Cambridge United Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 Birmingham United Kingdom 10 works
  9. 9 Beijing China 10 works
  10. 10 Melbourne Australia 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Los AngelesUS · 23.4 works7.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Theater, Performance, and Music History than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Theater, Performance, and Music History?

Among universities, judged by research, Oxford Brookes University, University of Oxford and King's College London score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 7.95%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Oxford Brookes University: 8, 8.2%University of Oxford: 10, 16.9%King's College London: 9, 0.0%University of Cambridge: 10, 6.7%University of OxfordOxford Brookes Unive…University of Cambri…King's College London
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Oxford Brookes UniversityUnited Kingdom 51.88.2%87.9×8 —
2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 47.516.9%7.0×10 +8.1%
3 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 39.10.0%10.5×9 +24.7%
4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 39.06.7%8.2×10 -2.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Theater, Performance, and Music History research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Theater, Performance, and Music History.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.