Call for Papers (deadline 18 Febaruary 2020)
Workshop-Conference in Bern, University of the Arts (HKB)
Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September 2020
Bootleg Opera and Pirate Queens – The Ehrenreich Collection and the Practice of Live Opera Recording
During the conference the Bern University of the Arts will present the Ehrenreich-Collection of opera recordings, a collection of over 2000 reel-to-reel tapes comprising around 10’000 hours of private bootleg recordings made between 1965 and 2010 at the major opera venues in New York by the self-proclaimed “pirate queen” Leroy Allan Ehrenreich (1929–2016). The conference aims to bring this singular collection into dialogue with similar collections worldwide, providing a valuable opportunity of contextualising and exploring the identities, networks, practices, voices and emotions involved in amateur bootleg recording in the second half of the twentieth century. Ideas and initiatives for further research projects around the collection are welcome.
For this workshop we invite scholars to propose research papers relating to relevant topics within and beyond the Ehrenreich Collection.
Proposals discussing one or several of the following topics are welcome:
1. identity (bootlegging, collecting practice, repertoire, venues, gender, sexuality, networks, etc.)
2. materiality (recording technology, preservation, digitization, etc.)
3. audio analysis and performance practice (live recorded singers, operatic performance, audience sounds, recording time and space, etc.)
4. reception and pedagogy (audience reception, live recordings as pedagogical tools, intended and perceived emotions, etc.)
5. diffusion (accessibility, data bases, legal status, citizen science, etc.)
Information concerning the conference and the Ehrenreich Collection is available here and will be continuously updated: https://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/bootleg-opera
Submissions should include a title, an abstract of 250 words, your name and academic affiliation, your CV and contact information. The official language for the conference is English.
Each participant will be allotted a 30-minute time-slot during the conference for presentation and discussion. Papers will be pre-circulated among participants 14 days prior to the conference to allow for in-depth exchange and discussion.
In addition to the paper discussions, participants will be invited to collectively consider selected recordings from the Ehrenreich Collection and develop further research perspectives in a workshop setting.
A publication of selected papers is envisaged.
A limited number of travel grants will be awarded to young researchers or scholars without institutional affiliation. Please specify in your submission whether you would like to apply for this funding.
Please email your abstract to [log in to unmask] by 18 February 2020.
Proposals will be anonymized before selection.
The members of the abstract selection committee are: Laura Moeckli, Teresa Puhrer, Martin Skamletz, Ingela Tägil and Hanna Hölling.
Confirmation of accepted proposals will be announced by 30 March 2020.
https://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/bootleg-opera
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