Program Mam VI, Dijon, France, July 2014

Location:
University of Burgundy
Faculty of Letters
2 Boulevard Gabriel
21000 Dijon, France

Scelles Amphitheater (right side entrance).

Transportation:
From city center take either tram number ONE (to Erasme) or
bus number FIVE (to Erasme). There is ample parking available.

1 July 2014

Registration: 9:00-10:00

Greetings:10:00-10:15

Word of welcome:
Pierre Ancet, Vice President, University of Burgundy
Laurence Le Diagon-Jacquin, conference host
Emile Wennekes, Chair MaM

Session 1: Mediated Images and the Language of Music: 10:15-11:45

Laurence Le Diagon-Jacquin: ‘Réécritures de chansons dans Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)’

Frank Lehman: ‘Pantriadic Music for Multimedia: Tonal Dialectics and the Aesthetics of Wonderment’

Manuel Deniz Silva: ‘Inventer un “son portugais” à Paris: la production aux studios d’Épinay-sur-seine de A Severa (1931), de leitão de Barros’

Session 2: Jazz as Soundtrack: 11:45-12:45

Michael Saffle: ‘Retrospective (Re)Constructions: Jazz as Soundtrack in Four “Great Gatsby” Films’

Lee Martin: ‘White Men Can’t Jump and Short Cuts: Urban Jazz Nostalgia in 1990s Constructions of Race and Gender’

Lunch: 12:45-14:30

Session 3: Voicing / Rewriting: 14:30-16:00

Chloë Huvet: ‘George Lucas et les partitions de John Williams pour Star Wars – Episodes I, II et III (1999-2005) : une réécriture musicale problématique ?     

Kenneth DeLong: ‘Voicing Sagan: George’s Auric’s Film Score to ’Bonjour tristesse’

Emile Wennekes: ‘Authenticity and identity in Tan Dun’s The Map

Coffee break: 16:00-16:30

Session 4: From Ads to Opera: 16:30-18:00

James Deaville & Agnes Malkinson: ‘Prescription for Influence: Doctoring Music in Medication Commercials’

Agnes Malkinson: ‘A Laugh a Second? Music and Sound in Comedy Trailers’

Gaia Varon: ‘Voiceless Passions: Operatic Music in Mario Martone’s Noi credevamo

Dinner: 19:00

 

2 July 2014

Session 5: Mediated Music for Younger Audiences: 10:00-11:00

Michael Saffle: ‘Phineas and Ferb as “Musical Comedy 3.0”’

Jérémy Michot: ‘Réécrire la musique hollywoodienne à l’ère des studios cinématographiques Marvel’

Keynote Address: 11:00-12:00

Philippe Gonin:’Jazz et cinéma ou les représentations de noirs et du jazz dans les films promotionnels et les cartoons des années 1930. Points et contrepoints’

Lunch: 12:00-13:30

Session 6: Alternative Scenes: 13:30-15:00

Sue Saffle: ‘Keeping Movie Music Minimal: Mother of Mine and Documentary Drama’

Sanna Qvick, ‘Film Music as Immersion Strategy in Two Films of Pessi and Illusia’

Amal Guermazi: ‘Vers une approche dialectique de l’analyse des bandes originales L’exemple du film Al-Masyr (Le Destin) de Youssef Chahine’

Coffee Break: 15:00-15:30

Session 7: On the Dark Side: (Neo-)Noir and Horror: 15:30-17:00

Brian Mann, ‘The Music in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Flambeur (1956): A Close Reading’

James Deaville: ‘Selling Abjection: Female Vocalities in Horror Films’

Willem Strank: ‘Traces of Noir Soundtracks in Neo-noir Films’

Closing remarks: 17:00-17:30

Program Committee

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Call for Papers 6th MaM meeting (Dijon, July 2014)

Call for Papers 6th MaM meeting (Dijon, July 2014)

Organization: IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) and Université de Bourgogne, Université de Rennes 2

Location: Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Dates: 1 & 2 July, 2014

Call for papers:

After previous conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, Turin and Ottawa, the IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) will organize a two day conference in Dijon, France. Academics, practitioners and postgraduate students are invited to submit papers and/or panel proposals on the following areas of interest, including (but not limited to):

-Rewriting music for film;

-Early French cinema (productions in Épinay-sur-Seine a.o.);

-Film noir;

-Jazz as soundtrack;

-Methodologies for the study of film soundtracks.

Proposals in both English and French are welcomed.

Each submission should include the following information:

author(s) name(s), academic affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), title of presentation, abstract (300 words max.), a short CV,

and a list of technological requirements (overhead, powerpoint, etc).

All proposals must be submitted by 1 April, 2014 to e.wennekes [AT] uu.nl

Program committee: James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), Laurence Le Diagon-Jacquin (Université de Rennes 2, Université de Bourgogne), Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg), Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University).