[ecrea] CFP: Art and Music in Documentary

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*CFP: ART & MUSIC in DOCUMENTARY*

WIDE SCREEN SPECIAL ISSUE

*EDITOR: VEENA HARIHARAN*

The art of the documentary has been explored at some length in 
documentary studies. John Grierson famously defined the documentary as 
the “creative treatment of actuality.” Less, however, has been written 
about the relationship between documentary and the arts, the impact of 
documentary on art and artists and vice-versa. The diversity of issues 
related to representation and interpretation, and the challenges 
involved in the representation of one medium by another, complicates the 
discursive spaces of production of art, music and documentary. From the 
early debates around fidelity and dynamism to the more contemporary ones 
around interactivity and performativity, the relationship between art, 
music and documentary is a rich terrain for exploration.

This special issue of *Wide Screen* attempts to address this dynamic 
relationship between the two and hopes to include in its scope 
documentaries related to music, performance, photography, painting, 
dance, architecture, folk and cultural forms, kitsch, experimental 
video, installation art and exhibition practices. We hope to include in 
this issue, documentaries on art and music in the international context 
and within frameworks of ideological, narrative and cultural production 
analyses.

We* *invite essays, articles, interviews, film and book reviews on this 
theme. They could include but are not limited to the following:

Documentaries on particular artists

Documentaries on particular artworks

Folk art and artists

Art online

Installations

Experimental Video

Feminist Video Art

Representational Challenges involved in depicting art and dance on film

Spatiality, Architecture, Documentary

Documentary and Photography

Musical history

Musical narratives

Reconstructions and live recordings of musical events

Documentary essays on musical genres

Portraits of musicians

The Use of Music in Documentary

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*Deadline for paper submission: Jan 5 2012.*

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or *emailed to*: (hariharan.veena /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(kuhutanvir /at/ gmail.com)>

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