Music, Media and Global Messages

Bringing together colleagues across disciplines, scholars, students, as well as practitioners, this conference aspires to share knowledge, research and practice.

This is a joint conference with York St John University and the Study Group Music and Media (MaM) under the auspices of the International Musicological Society.

Event themes

1. Translation: how are these art forms and works translated into new cultures, what is the role of subtitles or dubbing, and how can these art forms we accessible to all? Papers might problematise how a story (the target text) responds to the original narrative (the source text). How language is central to music and media communicating, how creative artists work in collaboration, and how the final work is received.

2. Music and Affect: what is the emotional impact of combining music and media; how do these art forms manipulate the spectator; how do these art forms come together to create a particular experience?

3. Genre: there is a wide-ranging breadth of genres within film, TV, animation and so on. Genres even merge to create new genres and approaches, not least a Western approach for a sci-fi battle. How have genres developed with new technologies and/or approaches.

4. Global Contexts: how might we read films which appropriate other cultures, and how might we consider the representation of global themes within specific genres?

5. John Barry: reassessing his contribution to music and media collaborations, reassessments, and critical reflections of his contribution.