We would like to bring to your attention to the joint annual conference of the IMS Study Group “Music and Media” and the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung, “Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age,” which will be held in hybrid form in Munich (Germany) from June 6 to 7, 2024. The conference is open to the public, free of charge for both in-person and online participation, however registration is required. Visit https://musicmedianarrative.de for all details.
Julin Lee & Emile Wennekes in cooperation with the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung, the IMS Study Group “Music and Media”, and Utrecht University.
Streaming has had a profound effect on how audiovisual narrative media have been produced, distributed, and consumed. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from diverse fields, this conference aims to spotlight aspects of music and sound in the audiovisual narrative landscape – what continuities and disruptions have been engendered by the rise of streaming?
Taking a broad approach to the concept of narrativity, we invite proposals for papers and themed panels tackling issues pertaining to soundtracks of audiovisual media including, but not limited to:
We seek proposals for 20-minute papers, roundtables, and other formats from interdisciplinary perspectives on the theme of our conference. As per Kieler Gesellschaft tradition, proposals for free papers outside the conference theme are also welcome.
Graduate students and early career scholars are strongly encouraged to apply. Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) and a short biography (max. 100 words) by 1 December 2023 to (Julin.lee@hmtm.de). Please also indicate if you plan on attending the conference in person or virtually. For in-person participants, there will be a fee of 30€ (15€ for students) to cover the costs of coffee breaks. As proposals will anonymized for review by the selection committee, explicit self-references should be avoided in the abstract. A themed publication in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung (kbzf) https://journals.qucosa.de/kbzf is planned.
The Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University Växjö, Sweden, invites applications for one full PhD position (4 years) in musicology within the Graduate School The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM). The successful applicant will be affiliated at the Linnæus University research center for Intermediality and Multimodality (IMS) as well. Deadline for applications is August 31.
The 14th meeting of the Music and Media Studygroup (MaM) under the auspices of the International Musicological Society met this past week in Paris, France. An enriching series of papers was presented by researchers from ten countries. Sincere thanks to the organisers from the Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, who did an excellent job in hosting us. My personal thanks to all those who presented their papers as well as the two keynote speakers: Prof. James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa) and Prof. Dominique Nasta (ULB, Brussels). Already looking forward to the 15th annual MaM event which will take place at the Hochschule für Musik und Musiktheater in Munich, from 6 to 8 June, 2024. The conference will be jointly organized with Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung. An open call for papers will be published this coming fall. The overarching theme will be Music and Media in the Streaming Age.
Nous sommes heureux de vous transmettre le programme du prochain colloque MaM auquel vous participez et qui aura lieu à Evry et à Paris du 19 au 21 juin 2023.
The Music and Media Study Group meeting of 2022 coincided with the quinquennial IMS conference, which took place in August in Athens, Greece. In the multipurpose room of the impressive concert hall building Μέγαρον Μουσικής Αθηνών, MaM hosted its 13th conference as a hybrid meeting throughout the morning of 23 August. Combining in-person and on-line presentations was the go-to, not only due to time zone differences, but also because Greece was still considered a Covid danger zone according to diverse foreign organizations.
Where MaM normally convenes multiple day, annual conferences, we now opted within the possibilities of the overall IMS conference for a smaller roundtable session, discussing the topic of Music in Comedy Cinema. This time, as well, no international open call for papers was published, but all invited speakers are involved in the upcoming Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema, edited by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes.
Dr. Chloé Huvet (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, France) opened the panel with her live talk ‘From E.T. to Tintin: John Williams’ Humorous Touches in Non-Comedy Films’. Dr. Emilio Audissino (Linnaeus University, Sweden) continued on the Williams theme with his on-line presentation ‘John Williams, from Comic to Humour: The pre-Star Wars Period’. Next up was Dr. Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA) who gave an on-line, and partly pre-recorded presentation entitled ‘Self-Reflexive Music and the Comic Incongruity in the Golden Age of French Comedies’. Prof. Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) then brought the overarching topic ‘(Under)scoring Laughs: Theoretical ingredients for a Handbook Introduction’ to the table, live from the Athens Concert Hall. Prof. James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) closed the line-up of Handbook contributors with the online presentation ‘Taking Mancini’s Comedy Scores Seriously’.
The papers were amply discussed, after which the round table meeting was closed by unveiling location and topic of the 2023 annual MaM meeting.
MaM’s 14th annual conference will be hosted by Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, and will take place in Paris (France) on 19-21 June, 2023. The topic will be Music and Sound in Francophone Audiovisual Media.
Prof. dr. Emile Wennekes, chair of the Study Group MaM
14th Annual Meeting of the Study Group MaM (Music and Media)
The Music and Media (MaM) Study Group of the International Musicological Society (IMS) invites proposals for its 14th annual international conference. The meeting will be hosted by Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, and is scheduled to take place on 19-21 June, 2023.
We welcome proposals that examine the theoretical and practical implications of Francophone audiovisual media. ‘Media’ here covers both classic audiovisual media (cinema, television – series, shows, advertisements, etc.) and new media (internet, streaming, video and audio platforms, social networks [Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook…]). We therefore encourage scholarship from a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches—musicology, film studies, ludomusicology, composition, etc.
Conference topics may include, but are not limited to:
1) Music, sound and genre in French fiction (film, television), for example:
· extreme French cinema (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Claire Denis, Xavier Gens, Pascal Laugier…), fantasy and horror (Julia Ducourneau, Coralie Fargeat…)
· dramas and thrillers (Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri Verneuil, René Clément, Xavier Legrand, Dominik Moll, Cédric Jimenez, Xavier Giannoli, Xavier Dolan…)
· musical films, musicals and comedies (Xavier Dolan, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christophe Honoré, Leos Carax, Alain Resnais, Michel Hazanavicius…)…
2) Music and sound in the French documentary film:
· direct cinema or “cinéma vérité” (Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Louis Malle, Peter Wintonick, Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault…)
· experimental documentaries and audiovisual essays (François Bel and Gérard Vienne, Frédéric Dallaire…)
· animal documentaries (Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats…)
· committed social cinema (Denys Arcand, Raymond Depardon, Alice Diop, Nicolas Philibert, Sébastien Lifshitz, Thierry Michel, Dieudo Hamadi, Hassen Ferhani, Gilles Perret, Jean-Gabriel Périot…)…
3) New Audiovisual Waves (Belgium, France and Overseas, Quebec, Maghreb countries, West Africa, Gulf of Guinea, South Africa…)
4) Approach and dissemination of music and sound in new French-language media
5) Sound and adaptation in foreign languages (questions of translation, dubbing and subtitling)
Invited keynote speakers are Dominique Nasta (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and James Deaville (Carleton University, Canada).
Deadline for proposals: 31 January, 2023.
Each speaker will have 20 minutes for the paper (in French or English) plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Please include as PDF or Word file: an abstract of no more than 250 words, a biographical note of no more than 150 words, contact details including academic affiliation, if applicable. Proposals should be for papers that have not been previously presented or published. Please send proposals to: chloe.huvet@univ-evry.fr.
The Program Committee includes Chloé Huvet and Grégoire Tosser (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay), Jérémy Michot (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia) and Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University; Chair MaM).
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Musique et son dans les médias audiovisuels francophones
14e Congrès annuel du groupe de recherche MaM (Music and Media)
Le groupe de recherche Music and Media (MaM) de l’International Musicological Society (IMS) lance un appel à propositions pour son 14e congrès annuel international. Le colloque se tiendra à l’Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay du 19 au 21 juin 2023.
Nous accueillons les propositions dans lesquelles une réflexion s’articule autour des implications théoriques et pratiques des médias audiovisuels francophones. Le terme « média » recouvre ici les médias audiovisuels classiques (cinéma, télévision – séries, émissions, publicités…) et les nouveaux médias (internet, plateformes streaming, vidéo et audio, réseaux sociaux [Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook…]). Nous encourageons par conséquent les travaux issus d’un large éventail d’approches interdisciplinaires – musicologie, études cinématographiques, ludomusicologie, composition, etc.
Axes proposés (non exhaustifs) :
1) Musique, son et genre dans la fiction francophone (cinéma, télévision) :
· Cinéma social engagé (Denys Arcand, Raymond Depardon, Alice Diop, Nicolas Philibert, Sébastien Lifshitz, Thierry Michel, Dieudo Hamadi, Hassen Ferhani, Gilles Perret, Jean-Gabriel Périot…).
3) Nouvelles Vagues audiovisuelles (Belgique, France et Outre-mer, Québec, pays du Maghreb, Afrique de l’Ouest, golfe de Guinée, Afrique du Sud…)
4) Approche et diffusion de la musique et du son dans les nouveaux médias francophones
5) Son et adaptation en langues étrangères (questions de la traduction, du doublage et du sous-titrage).
Deux conférences plénières seront assurées par Dominique Nasta (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) et James Deaville (Carleton University, Canada).
Date limite des propositions : 31 janvier 2023.
Chaque communication (en français ou en anglais) aura une durée de 20 minutes et sera suivie de 10 minutes de discussion.
Les résumés de communication (250 mots maximum) devront être envoyés en format PDF ou Word à chloe.huvet@univ-evry.fr. Merci de joindre à votre proposition une notice biographique de 150 mots maximum et de mentionner votre affiliation universitaire.
Le comité scientifique et organisateur est composé de Chloé Huvet et Grégoire Tosser (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay), Jérémy Michot (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia) et Emile Wennekes (Université d’Utrecht ; président MaM).
Due to Covid-19, the 12th annual meeting of the Music and Media Study Group (MaM) had to be postponed last year. With no end of the pandemic in sight, we decided to schedule the conference of 2021 from the start as a virtual meeting, taking place on June 10-11. The meeting was hosted from two venues: Cleveland State University and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland. Theme of the meeting was Pre-existing Music in Screen-Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges.
A new open Call for Papers was widely distributed. Accepted papers from the previous year were automatically incorporated in the new program. We welcomed proposals that examined the theoretical and practical implications of pre-existing music in a variety of screen media—with special emphasis on cinema, music videos, and digital technologies.
The two day conference with 24 speakers in total was scheduled in six panels: ‘Redefining the Use of Pre-Existing Music through Bricolage’, ‘Auteur Cinema and Opera’, ‘Hollywood, European Mainstream, and Pre-Existing Music’, ‘Prototypical Film Genres and Pre-Existing Music’, ‘Incongruency, Isomorphism, and Rearrangement’, and ‘Advertising, Branding, Franchising’.
The participants were offered two keynote presentations, streamed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The first was given by dr. James Buhler (University of Texas at Austin) and entitled ‘Composing for the Films in the Age of Digital Media’. The second key note talk by dr. Carol Vernallis (Stanford University) entitled ’Music Video and the Multisensory’ was streamed at a later moment due to technical challenges.
The program conference committee included both keynote speakers, as well as Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University & co-organizer), Ewelina Boczkowska (Youngstown State University & co-organizer), Jason Hanley (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & co-organizer), Chloé Huvet (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Tobias Pontara (Gothenburg University), and Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University & co-organizer).
The study group meeting of 2022 will coincide with the quinquennial IMS conference, which will take place in August in Athens, Greece. https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/ims22/
We will host a round table on the topic of Music in Comedy Cinema. The papers presented here will form parts of the upcoming Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema, edited by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes. Invited speakers include Mervyn Cooke, James Deaville, members of last year’s program committee (Chloé Huvet, Ewelina Boczkowska, Michael Baumgartner), as well as the two editors of the Handbook.
Robynn Stilwell: “Creating Anew: The Mash-Up as Performance, Collaboration, Independent Work”
Chair: Emile Wennekes
11:00 AM–12:30 PM Panel 2: Auteur Cinema and Opera (CSU)
Justin Mueller: “The Remediated Soundscape of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal”
Scott Murphy: “Reappropriation Enlists Contingency: A Rogue Note in Melancholia”
Pascal Rudolph: “The Musical Idea Working Group: Production vs. Reception of Pre-existing Music”
Chair: Tobias Pontara
12:30–1:30 PM Break for Refreshments
1:30–2:30 PM Keynote Address I (R&HoF)
James Buhler: “Composing for the Films in the Age of Digital Media”
Chair: Jason Hanley
3:00–4:30 PMPanel 3: Hollywood, European Mainstream, and Pre-Existing Music (CSU)
Gillian Anderson: “Pre-existing Music in Way Down East (Griffith, 1920) and Ben Hur (Niblo, 1926)”
Richard Anatone: “Pre-Existing Music as Leitmotif in Groundhog Day: Breaking the Cycle of the Endless Rondo through Transformative Variation”
Kate McQuiston: “Half Past Duke: Gondry’s Jazz Clock in Mood Indigo“
Chair: Mark Durrand
Friday, 11 June 2021
8:50–9:00 AM Opening Remarks (CSU)
Professor Heather Russell, Director of School of Music, CSU
9:00–10:30 AM Panel 4: Prototypical Film Genres and Pre-Existing Music (CSU)
Julin Lee: “Staging a Synthetic Western: Instrumental Covers of Pre-Existing Music in HBO’s Westworld:The Maze (2016)”
Michiel Kamp: “Drive, Synthwave, and the Audiovisual Imaginaries of Neo(n)-Noir”
Roberto Calabretto: “The Melodramatic Imagination of Visconti’s Cinema”
Chair: Rebecca Fülöp
10:45 AM–12:15 PMPanel 5: Incongruency, Isomorphism, and Rearrangement (CSU)
David Ireland: “What a Wonderful World? Investigating the Evolution and Effect of Incongruent Post-Existing Film Music”
Dominique Nasta and Thomas Van Deursen: “Structural Isomorphism and Double-Bind Receptivity: The Affective Nexus of Classical and Popular Music Quotes in Five Contemporary Films”
James Mc Glynn: “Rearrangement of Pre-existing Music in the Film Score: Narratological Possibilities, Deliberate Ambiguities and Questions of ‘Originality’”
Chair: Chloé Huvet
12:15–1:15 PM Break for Refreshments
1:15–2:15 PM Keynote Address II (R&RHoF)
Carol Vernallis: “Music Video and the Multisensory”
Pre-existing Music in Screen-Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges
12th Meeting of the Music and Media (MaM) Study Group of the IMS, Cleveland
The Music and Media (MaM) Study Group of the International Musicological Society (IMS) invites proposals to its twelfth annual international conference. Due to Covid-19, the conference was postponed last year.We will now host a virtual meeting on June 10-11, 2021. The meeting will be hosted by Cleveland State University and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
We welcome proposals that examine the theoretical and practical implications of pre-existing music in a variety of screen media—with special emphasis on cinema, music videos, and digital technologies. We encourage scholarship from a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches—musicology, film studies, ludomusicology, composition, etc.
Conference topics may include, but are not limited to:
The definition of pre-existing music in screen media; What is pre-existing music? What are the specific characteristics of pre-existing music?
Pre-existing music and socio-cultural representations in cinema
Pre-existing music, cultural coding and “recodification” in specific cinematic contexts
Pre-existing music and intertextuality
Re-appropriation of pre-existing music in screen media
Pre-existing classical, jazz, and popular music in screen media
Pre-existing music in video games and non-fictional cinema (documentary films, television)
Pre-existing music vs. commissioned music
Pre-existing music and auteur cinema
Licensing of pre-existing music for film, television, and other media.
Pre-existing music, post-existing music, and cinematic listening
Keynote speakers are Carol Vernallis (Stanford University) and James Buhler (University of Texas at Austin).
Deadline: April 15, 2021. Participants will be notified by May 15, 2021.
Each speaker will have 20 minutes for the paper plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Please include as pdf or Word file: an abstract of no more than 250 words, a biographical note of no more than 150 words, contact details including academic affiliation, if applicable. Proposals should be for papers that have not been previously presented or published.
Scholars who have submitted a proposal last year will be notified separately and given the opportunity to revise their abstracts.
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