Description
This panel brings together researchers from the newly formed MeCCSA Sound Studies Network. It is themed around the political and ethical dimensions of the creative use of music and the human voice in film and sound art. The panel will explore theoretical analyses of existing audiovisual media, and discussion of original creative practice. Both the potential exclusion and active inclusion of marginalised, alternative and traumatised ‘voices’, unites the papers, with race a key thread. Andy Birtwistle and Nessa Johnston examine respectively how the voices of black American musicians are ‘silenced’ in narrative film through being denied speaking roles as jazz performers (Altman’s Kansas City), or de-emphasising their authorship of blues and soul music, performed on screen by white Irish performers (Parker’s The Commitments). By contrast, Linda O’Keefe and Geoffrey Cox describe how their respective creative collaborations, in the form of a sound installation commemorating the Holocaust, and commissioned ‘video poems’ filmed in the countryside, seek to actively give voice to people of colour and survivors of war and genocide. They will explore how as creative artists, they negotiate the ethics of combining the sonically aesthetically pleasing with overt or sub-textual political issues. Together, the four panellists use sound studies of media to consider the ethics of sonic representation.| Period | 8 Sep 2022 |
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| Event title | Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Conference 2022 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Aberdeen, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |