2006-12-12

Song, Stage and Screen II International Conference Call for Paper

The conference will be hold on 23rd-25th March 2007, at School of Performance and Cultural Industries University of Leeds.

Contributions are invited to the above conference which aims to bring together scholars from all over the world in any discipline, working on the relationship between music and the stage/screen.

The deadline for proposals is Friday, 5th January 2007.
The official language of the conference is English. It would be particularly interested in papers, panels and workshops on the following themes, although these should not be taken as exclusive:

* The body performing Music(al) Theatre
* Semiotics of escapism: watching Music(al) Theatre
* Music(al) Theatre as voyeurism
* Contemporary British Music(al) Theatre
* Post-modernism and songs on stage
* Ideology, Politics and the Musical stage
* Globalisation and the consumption of the Musical stage
* Problems of Genre: Opera / Music(al) Theatre
* Utopia and Reality: Escapism and the screen Musical
* Gender and sexuality in Music(al) Theatre
* Analysis: the fusion of words and music
* Paralinguistics and the rhetorical expression of music in song

It is also interested in hosting a small number of small-scale Music(al) Theatre performances (of up to 6 performers).

Papers should be designed to last no more than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to the conference co-ordinator, Sue Jones, pcusj@leeds.ac.uk with the subject heading Song, Stage and Screen II.

Further information:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/paci/songstagescreen.html
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