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Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce the publication of our edited collection: Music and Sound in Silent Film, From the Nickelodeon to The Artist (Routledge 2019) https://www.routledge.com/Music-and-Sound-in-Silent-Film-From-the-Nickelodeon-to-The-Artist/Barton-Trezise/p/book/9781138245358 TOC: Simon Trezise, Introduction Part One: The evolution of sound and performance practices, the American experience Jim Buhler and Allison Wente, ‘Better Music at Smaller Cost’: Selling Mechanical Instruments to American Motion Picture Houses in the 1910s Kendra Preston Leonard: Musical Suggestions for Hollywood Films, 1908-1927 Malcolm Cook, Sing them again: audience singing in silent film Part Two: The evolution of sound and performance practices, the global experience Denis Condon, ‘Players Must Be of a Good Class’: Women and Concert Musicians in Irish Picture Houses, 1910-20 Laraine Porter, Women musicians in the transition between silent and sound cinema Part Three: Synchronisation and scoring – historical practices Gillian B. Anderson, Music’s Role in the Development of the ‘Mute’ Feature Film: Birth of a Nation, Ben Hur and Wings Fiona Ford, Edmund Meisel’s score to Der heilige Berg (1926): Prefiguring Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’ narrative-scoring practices in live performance Part Four - Synchronisation and scoring – contemporary reworkings Carl Davis, interview by Simon Trezise Ed Hughes, Scenes from Ozu Emilio Audissino, Damaging a film; rediscovering a film. A Musical Comparison of Three DVD Editions of Nosferatu. Nicholas Brown, Electroacoustic Composition and Silent Film James Wierzbicki, The Modern ‘Silent Film’ Ruth Barton & Simon Trezise, Trinity College Dublin -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------