[Commlist] Call for papers: ‘Music, Media and Global Messages’ Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE ‘MUSIC, MEDIA AND GLOBAL MESSAGES’,YORK, 9-10 
JUNE 2025

York St John University <https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/> and the 
International Musicological Society <https://www.musicology.org/>’s 
study group Music and Media (MaM) <https://studygroupmam.com/> present 
their annual conference (9-10 June 2025).
/Music, Media, and Global Messages /
Come to York, which is both the birthplace of the versatile composer, 
John Barry (1933-2011), and a UNESCO City of Media Arts 
<https://unesco.org.uk/our-sites/creative-cities/york>, which houses 
many media companies, including VFX companies, film companies, art 
magazine and more. Take the opportunity to explore place and space 
within a rich historical city, hosted in person by the York St John 
University’s School of the Arts, that supports diverse approaches to 
music and media in their broadest senses.
Be inspired by Barry, who was a pluralistic composer writing for 
animation, TV and film, as well as collaborating with popular musicians. 
He wrote music for westerns, spy thrillers, romance, historical epics, 
sci-fi, biopics and more, presenting a wider range of cultural through 
music. Crossing genre borders, Barry demonstrates the reach and breadth 
of media and music, and the interpolation of the arts in creating 
stories, narratives, and transcultural engagement, emotional interaction 
and presentation, raising questions of place, space, cultural 
appropriation, access, and interpretation, and more.
Bringing together colleagues across disciplines, scholars, students, as 
well as practitioners, this conference aspires to share knowledge, 
research and practice, which shows similar versatility to that inspired 
by Barry. In his work, he represented a diverse range of genres, places, 
spaces, eras, cultures, and more. For this joint conference of York St 
John University and the Study Group Music and Media (MaM) under the 
auspices of the International Musicological Society, we particularly 
welcome individual papers (20 minutes; 10 minutes Q&A), themed panels 
(or 3 or 4 papers), and screenings, which relate to the following themes:
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.

Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) and a short biography (max. 
100 words) by 1 April 2025 at https://forms.office.com/e/uQ2XcV7fa2 
<https://forms.office.com/e/uQ2XcV7fa2>.
The booking link, programme and details will be released after the peer 
review process.

As proposals will be anonymized for review by the Steering Committee, 
explicit self-references should be avoided in the abstract.

Steering Committee:
Co-Chair, Prof. Helen Julia Minors (York St John University)
Co-Chair, MaM: Prof. Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University)
Prof. Steve Rawle (York St John University)
Dr. Sarah-Jane Gibson (York St John University)
Dr. Emilio Audissino (Linnaeus University)

Available online here: 
https://studygroupmam.com/2025/01/31/call-for-papers-4/ 
<https://studygroupmam.com/2025/01/31/call-for-papers-4/>

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