HOLLYWOOD’S MUSICAL CONTEMPORARIES AND COMPETITORS IN THE EARLY SOUND FILM ERA
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University of Surrey
Saturday 26 July 2014 to Monday 28 July 2014
Keynote Speaker: Dr Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College)
Registration information: University of Surrey Online Store
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The conference offers a welcome opportunity to investigate scoring practices at the birth of the sound era in cinematic traditions outside Hollywood and the USA, and includes:
· paper sessions on early film music in China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil and Europe
· papers addressing repertoire in Russia, UK, Sweden, Greece, Lithuania, Egypt, India and Australia, as well as theoretical discussion of the early role of music
· lecture-demonstrations on the socio-political contexts of film scoring in 1930s Spain and Italy
· a panel discussion on emerging sound and compositional techniques in Italy
· the keynote paper: ‘‘“New means of enormous power”: Music in Early Soviet Sound Film’
· various film screenings and audio-visual performances
Please see the conference or registration webpage for the full programme.
Generously supported by The British Academy, The Film Music Foundation, the Royal Musical Association, Music & Letters, and the School of Arts and International Relations Office at the University of Surrey.
Conference convenor: Dr Jeremy Barham
Conference committee:
Professor Mervyn Cooke (Department of Music, University of Nottingham)
Dr Ben Winters (Department of Music, The Open University)
Dr Holly Rogers (Department of Music, University of Liverpool)
Dr Jeremy Barham (School of Arts (Music), University of Surrey)
Hollywood’s Musical
Contemporaries and Competitors in the Early Sound Film Era
Conference Programme
Saturday
26 July
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Registration and coffee/tea
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09.00-10.15
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Welcome
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10.15-10.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Paper Session 1
‘New Grounds and a City Symphony: Composing Early
Sound Films in The Netherlands’, Emile Wennekes
‘The Use of Non-Diegetic Music During the Conversion to Sound in Sweden 1929-1932’, Christopher Natzén
‘“Oh… Modern Music!”
Hollywood, Satire and “Modernism” in Giuseppe Piazzi’s score for I fratelli dynamite’, Marco
Bellano
‘Music
Directors and their Composers in 1930s British Film: the Creative Process
and Working Musical Relationships’, Alexis Bennett
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10.30-12.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Lunch
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12.30-13.30
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 2
‘Picturing
Sound, Sounding Space: The Evocation and Mediation of Acoustic Experience in
Early 1930s Chinese Cinema’, Ling
Zhang
‘A Confluence of Performing Arts in Pre-war Hong
Kong Cinema:
A Case Study of Director Chan Pei’,
Stephanie Ng
‘Retranslating
Musical Comedy for Shanghai’s Left-wing Film Movement’, Madeleine Wilcox
‘Sound
Techniques, Musical Comedy and Yuan Muzhi’s Scenes of City Life (1935)’, Li Guo
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13.30-15.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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15.30-16.00
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 3
‘Between
This World and That: Music and Disjuncture in Die Tochter des Samurai’, Brooke McCorkle
‘Historical-Aesthetic
Views on Scoring Practices in Early Sound Film in Germany’, Maria Fuchs
‘Eternally
Feminine: Cultural Representations of Womanhood in the Scoring of Early Sound
Films from Weimar-Republic Germany’, Jeremy Barham
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16.00-17.30
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Ivy
Arts Centre, First Floor, room: tbc
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Dinner
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18.00-19.30
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University
campus
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Audio-visual
performances, followed by film screening of Das Blaue Licht (dir. Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs, music
Giuseppe Becce, 1932)
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20.00
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Ivy
Theatre
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Sunday
27 July
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Paper Session 4
‘The Only Son: Ozu Soundscape and Ito’s
Music During Japan’s Transition from Silent to Sound’, James M. Doering
‘The Heterogeneity of Early Japanese
Sound-Film Music in the Modernist Culture of the Early 1930s: A Madame and a Wife (1931) and One Million Chorus (1935)’, Fumito
Shirai
‘The
Talkies and Its Singing Stars: Analysing Aural Stardom in 1930s Bombay
Cinema’,
Olympia
Bhatt
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09.00-10.30
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Ivy Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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10.30-11.00
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Ivy
Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 5
‘Divergence
and Emergence in Latin American Film Musicals of the 1930s’, Nicolas Poppe
‘Early Imaginary of
Buenos Aires City. From Tango Poetics of the 1920s Toward Sound Films of the
1930s’, Pablo Piedras
‘Film
and Tango: the Contribution of Luis César Amadori to the Argentinian Film
Industry in the Late 1930s’, Lucía Rodríguez Riva
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11.00-12.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Lunch
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12.30-13.30
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Keynote Address by Kathryn
Kalinak
‘“New
means of enormous power”: Music in Early Soviet Sound Film'
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13.30-14.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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14.30-15.00
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 6
‘The
Russia Empire in Music: Der weiße
Teufel (UFA, 1930)’, Stuart Campbell
‘The
Symphonies of Factory Sirens and Anti-Hollywood Sound Projects in Soviet
Russia’, Dmitri Zakharine
‘“The Dream of a Fatty”. The First Lithuanian Sound Film in the Context of Scoring Practice for
Early Puppet-Animation Sound Films’, Antanas Kučinskas
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15.00-16.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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16.30-17.00
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Session 7: Panel Discussion
‘The
Advent of Sound Film in Italy and the First Approaches to the New
Audio-Visual Genre by Italian Composers During the Years 1930-1940’, led by
Roberto Calabretto and Kristjan Stopar
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17.00-18.00
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Ivy
Theatre
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Conference Dinner
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18.30-20.30
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Guildford
Town
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Screening
of Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer,
1932), with Paul Robinson’s newly composed score played live by the
HarmonieBand
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20.30
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The
Electric Theatre, Guildford
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Monday
28 July
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Paper Session 8
‘The
First Brazilian Sound Films’, Carlos Roberto de Souza
‘What
are the So-Called “Our things”? Popular Music, Records and the Beginnings of
Sound Films in Brazil’, Suzana Reck Miranda
‘“The
Discovery of Brazil”: Early Brazilian Film Music Practices and Nationalism in
the Sound Era’, Anselmo Mancini
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09.00-10.30
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Ivy Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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10.30-11.00
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Ivy
Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 9
‘Words
and Music: Dialogue Underscoring in the Early Musical’, Lea Jacobs
‘Musical
Films Made in Germany’, Charles O’Brien
‘Toward
a Theory of the Part-Talkie’, James Buhler
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11.00-12.30
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Ivy
Theatre
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Lunch
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12.30-13.30
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Session 10:
Lecture-demonstrations
Laura Miranda González:
‘The
Folkloric Film Musical in Spain’s II Republic (1931-1936): Continuation of a Tradition
That Went Beyond Francoism’
Franco
Sciannameo:
‘Ildebrando
Pizzetti’s Dilemmas in Scoring Scipione
L’Africano (1937)’
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13.30-15.00
(13.30-14.10)
(14.20-15.00)
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Ivy
Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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15.00-15.30
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 11
‘Early Greek Talkies (1930-1940): Struggling
Between Technology and Theatre’, Emmanuel Arkolakis
‘Early
Egyptian Film Song: The Development of a Syncretic Style’, Margaret Farrell
‘Tarzan
meets Hiawatha: The music of Australian Aboriginal films of the 1930s’,
Anthony Linden Jones
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15.30-17.00
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Ivy
Theatre
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Coffee/Tea
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17.00-17.30
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Ivy Arts Centre Foyer
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Paper Session 12
‘The Wild Cat (El gato montés, Rosario Pi; Spain, 1935): the Spanish Opera that
Turned into a Soundtrack’, Fernando Carmena
‘Mobilising Desire: the
Operetta Films of Pills and Tabet in 1930s France’, Phil Powrie
‘Louise by
Abel Gance after Gustave Charpentier (1939): Re-composing the Opera on
Screen’, Tommaso Sabbatini
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17.30-19.00
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Ivy
Theatre
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