Filming African Music
18 November 2017
Bath Spa University, Newton Park campus
This interdisciplinary study day is a partnership between Bath Spa University, the African Musics Study Group UK branch (AMSG-UK), affiliated to the International Council for Traditional Music, the Afrika Eye Film Festival, Bristol (10-12 November 2017), and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
A holistic definition of ‘music’ (missing from most African lexicons) is employed by AMSG-UK to include events and communities involving sound and movement. We invite contributions from performers, music industry professionals, scholars, and active listeners that explore how video and audio recording present diverse music-making traditions to a range of audiences.
The video documentation of African music presents multiple challenges: the filming of musicians and the contexts in which they perform, both in their own cultural settings and around the world, range from the indigenous and traditional to contemporary popular musical forms. Professional and amateur filmmakers and videographers play a significant role in shaping and changing perceptions of African music, undertaking a political and selective act rather than a mere documentation of events. This raises interesting questions concerning Western and African concepts of performance and education.
Presentations are invited which conform with or break from the conventional academic 20-minute conference paper format, including presentations using diverse media, between 10 and 30 minutes in length. Proposals for screenings outside these parameters will also be considered. We anticipate vigorous debate through sharing research-in-progress communicated through speech, performance, hands-on workshops, or film and multimedia.
Conference website: Filming African Music
Programme Committee: Amanda Bayley (chair), Chartwell Dutiro, Terry Rodgers, Amanda Villepastour, Trevor Wiggins.
The study day is being run in partnership with Afrika Eye Film Festival, Bristol, 10-12 November 2017, and Cardiff University, School of Music which is hosting a related event on Tuesday 14 November 2017, comprising the annual Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture, given by Lucy Duran (winner of an AHRC Research in Film Award, 2015), and a free afternoon dance workshop with live drumming (1-3pm) and evening performance by Senegalese musician Landing Mané.
Further information can be obtained from Amanda Bayley: [log in to unmask]
Amanda BayleyProfessor of MusicDepartment of MusicBath Spa UniversityNewton Park. Bath, BA2 9BN
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