Representing Performance-Musical Recordings in Culture

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Calendar Event: October 30, 2004

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Representing Performance
Musical Recordings in Culture

Study Day at Royal Holloway, University of London, sponsored by the
Society for Music Analysis

Saturday, 30 October 2004

Call for contributions
Hosted by the newly established AHRB Research Centre for the History and
Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) and sponsored by the SMA, this study
day focusses on the contexts within which musical performances are
represented, and the motivations underlying such representations. The aim
is to contribute to an understanding of the cultural work accomplished by
the technologies of recording-an aim which is equally relevant to the
study of 'art', popular, and world musics. Here are some examples of the
kind of work this might include:

* diegetic music in films or music videos: what kind of phenomenon is
musical performance represented to be, and how does it relate to narrative
elements? What do films and music videos have to say about performers?

* ethnomusicological representations of performance: how do sound or video
recordings reflect or shape attitudes towards other cultures or
disciplinary agendas?

* commercial recording practices: to what extent, in what ways, and to
what ends do record producers and sound engineers represent performance in
relation to the experience of live music?

If you would like to present a paper on any of these or related topics,
please email a proposal of approximately 150/250 words to the convenor,
Nicholas Cook (nicholas.cook@rhul.ac.uk) by 1 July 2004. Proposals for
linked papers or round tables are also welcomed.