Jack Seibert on the tension between documentation and mythology in Frank Tashlin's early rock n’ roll musical 'The Girl Can’t Help It'.

Patrick Preziosi shows the complementary ways Tsai Ming-liang and Terence Davies use musical numbers to confront the burden of history.

Joseph Pomp looks at Flora Gomes's “glocal” musical 'Nha Fala', focussing on its healing powers and propensity for moving across cultures.

Savina Petkova illuminates how Agnieszka Smoczyńska 'The Lure' stresses the genre’s porosity, enabling it to think through the body.

Cláudio Alves doubles down on the musical’s fraught relationship with realism through an analysis of João Nicolau's 'Technoboss'.