2012/04/16

ROCK AND POP IN THE MOVIES (German Review)


Liebe Freunde der Filmmusikforschung,

wir sind froh ankündigen zu dürfen, dass die zweite Ausgabe unserer Zeitschrift

ROCK AND POP IN THE MOVIES

vor zwei Tagen erschienen ist und sich online unter folgendem Link aufrufen lässt:

http://www.rockpopmovies.de/pagecontents-ansehen-1099-84-0-QWt0dWVsbGUgQXVzZ2FiZQdec2.htm

(Heimadresse: 
http://www.rockpopmovies.de)

Herzliche Grüße,

Willem Strank
im Namen der Herausgeber

Call for papers : IMS Music and Media Study (Italy, Turin, 28-29th June 2012)


IMS Music and Media Study Group

The IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) will hold its fourth international meeting in Turin at the Università di Torino, as pre-conference to the IMS Rome 2012 conference. One of the themes will be ‘Unheard Melodies: 25 years’. This session will thematize a retrospective on Claudia Gorbman’s groundbreaking book on the role of narrative film music.
Other areas of interest include (but are not limited to) :
  • (New) methodologies for the study of film soundtracks;
  • Unheard melodies and New Media;
  • Synchronisation;
  • Non-canonical music and New Media.
Keynote speaker : Claudia Gorbman (University of Washington Tacoma)
Program committee : Gianmario Borio (Università di Pavia), James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa), Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool), Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg), Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University), Luisa Zanoncelli (Università di Torino).

Academics, practitioners and postgraduate students are invited to submit papers proposals (20 minutes). Each submission should include the following information: author(s) name(s), academic affiliation(s), e-mail address, title of presentation, abstract (300 words max.), a short CV, and a list of technological requirements (overhead, power point, etc).

All proposals must be submitted by 15 March 2012 to: e.wennekes@uu.nl
Organization: IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) and Università di Torino / University of Turin, Department of Art, Theater, Film and Music studies.

Location: Università di Torino / University of Turin, Palazzo Nuovo
Auditorium Quazza,
Via S. Ottavio, 20
Dates: 28 & 29 June 2012
Additional info is at the web site: http://www.wwclassicsonline.com/en/mam.html

Call for papers : New york : Music and the moving Image VII (1-3th June 2012)


Music and the moving Image VII

Conference at NYU Steinhardt, June 1-3, 2012

The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPod, computer, and interactive performances) through paper presentations.
This year’s conference will include practitioner roundtables on "Songs in Film," featuring leading music supervisors and chaired by Grammy-nominated NYU Songwriter-in-Residence, Phil Galdston (Save the Best for Last). We also encourage abstract submissions on "Songs in Film" for panels. We will present our second year of panels dedicated to papers on Film Music Pedagogy chaired by Philip Tagg and Ron Sadoff, and we invite those who teach within film, media, and/or music curricula to submit abstracts about applying particular theoretical approaches to the practice of teaching soundtracks. Streaming video of the presentations will be available only at NYU from June 1-11, 2012.
The Program Committee includes Roberto.Calabretto (Lo schermo sonoro. La musica per film); Jeongwon Joe (Wagner and Cinema; Between Opera and Cinema); Philip Tagg (Kojak: 50 Seconds of Television Music; Ten Little Title Tunes); Emile Wennekes (Chair of the Music and Media Study Group of the International Musicological Society); and coeditors of Music and the Moving Image, Gillian B. Anderson (Haexan; Pandora’s Box; Music for Silent Film 1892-1929: A Guide); and NYU faculty, Ron Sadoff (The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation; Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood). The conference will run in conjunction with the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker (May 22-31, 2012).


Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted to: Dr. Ron Sadoff, [ mamicon2012 at gmail.com ] chair of the program committee, by no later than Dec. 16, 2011.

E-mail ron.sadoff@nyu.edu for more information.

Ron Sadoff
New York University
35 West 4th St
Suite 777
New York, NY, 10012

MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONS
Conference fee (June 1-3, 2012): $175.00
Students: $85.00 - Housing Available