*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Exile, Modernism, and Hollywood*
*Date of symposium: *February 2nd and 3rd, 2022
*Location: *Liszt Hall of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts
Vienna
*Organized by: *Exilarte Center of the mdw; Lothringerstraße 18, 1030 Vienna
*Organizing committee: *Christian Glanz, Gerold Gruber, Michael Haas, Julia
Heimerdinger,
Kenneth Marcus
*Deadline for proposals: *October 29th, 2021 (please send to
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This is a hybrid event, researchers are free to choose to participate
online or on site.
This symposium seeks to find the seeds to musical Modernism in the cinema
of the 1930s
and 1940s and evaluate its ultimate influence in film and absolute music.
Hollywood
became home for a vast diaspora of composers with the advent of sound
cinema in the
late 1920s. With the rise of Nazism and Bolshevism in Europe, the diaspora
widened
considerably, primarily by Austro-German exiles. Composers Hanns Eisler and
Karol Rathaus
had already rejected the late-Romanticism of Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang
Korngold,
while other composers such as Ernst Toch, Hans Salter and Franz Waxman
(Wachsmann)
had taken the Romanticism template and modified it towards contemporary
sound design.
A common experience that greatly shaped the careers of these composers was
exile,
which scholars have long recognized as a dialectic. It can lead to
shattering experiences
regarding identity, yet it can also open up new opportunities for
expression and
communication. In exploring connections between exile composers, Modernism,
and
Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1940s, this symposium examines what is
surely
one of the greatest cultural transfers in modern history, when
European-trained
composers who engaged with modernist ideas often struggled between the
desire to
achieve success in Hollywood while still being true to their art. Modernism
in this
symposium consists of a plurality of styles that Hollywood attracted,
including but not
limited to dodecaphony and atonality.
With the goal of examining the influence of Hollywood more broadly, we also
welcome
proposals about exile composers who benefited from the Hollywood film
industry in other
ways but did not necessarily write for film. This group would include such
figures as Arnold
Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Ernst Krenek, such as through commissions
of works,
teaching men and women in Hollywood, and developing social networks with
members of
the entertainment industry.
Ph. Dr. Michael Haas
Senior Researcher
exil.arte Zentrum, mdw
Lothringerstr. 18
A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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+43 1 711 55 3544
+43 676 548 3090
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