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Access to instruments and instruction, along with encouragement at home and at school during childhood and early adulthood, can make gaining musical experience possible.
Most of Garland’s films are strikingly void of musical numbers that exist purely for their own sake. Her talents as an actor and singer would shape the movie musical for decades.
Fans of divas like Judy Garland formed complex social networks and communities around their fandom that were also about joy and celebration.
Nothing passes the time like a singalong to some classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Dorothy’s slippers, worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, have long been celebrated as a ‘queer object’. With one pair recently restored at a price of $300,000, do they deserve such adulation?
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Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Swansea University
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Professor, Department of Music, Personal Chair, Musicology, University of Sheffield
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Honorary Academic, University of Auckland, New Zealand, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Lecturer, School of Music, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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PhD Candidate, Department of English, McGill University
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Associate Professor of Music, Penn State