Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen 2
Parallel Histories: Musical Pasts as Historical Presents
Call for Papers
Keynote speaker: Dr Karen Cook – title tbc
The representation of early music (broadly construed as pre-Mozart) on stage and screen has been underexplored in academic contexts. The Representation of Early Music on Stage and Screen study group (REMOSS), hosted at the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Music on Stage and Screen (MOSS), has been working to address this, building upon some of the relevant research that has begun to emerge. This study group aims to investigate this topic in more detail through a range of roundtable discussions, blog posts, study days and future publications.
On Friday 8th April 2016, the REMOSS group will host its second study day at Birmingham Conservatoire. This will be a one-day event, for which registration is free (and digital attendance is actively encouraged). We cordially invite papers on any topic relating to the representation of early music on stage and screen (including both traditional and new forms of media i.e. videogame). As with our previous study day, particular topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Otherness and Authenticity (/Authenticities):
• Orientalism (the past is a different country)
• Performance practice
• Geography (and its representation/signification)
• Living traditions
• Anachronism (deliberate or 'accidental')
Re-composition and the re-use of the past:
• Musical vocabularies for evoking the ‘early’ and the ‘other’ (pedals, modes etc.)
• Pastiche
• Creative use of the past - technical, material (c.f. Neoclassicism)
• Parody
Please send 250 word abstracts for papers no longer than 20 minutes to [log in to unmask] by 19th February 2016. Other forms of presentation will be considered, so do get in touch if you wish to present using an alternative method. The programme committee intends to respond to submissions no later than 4th March 2016.
If you are interested in hearing more about the group or getting involved, join our JISCmail list ([log in to unmask]), visit our website (http://nottingham.ac.uk/moss/research/remoss.aspx), or follow us on twitter @REMOSSNotts. We look forward to hearing from you.
James Cook, Bangor University
Alex Kolassa, University of Nottingham
Adam Whittaker, Birmingham Conservatoire
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