Music of the Americas Study Group

Sound and Vision Symposium

April 9, 2005

Session I: 8:30–10:00
American Culture Conference Room
3512 Haven Hall

Experiencing Audio-Vision #1

Moderator: Richard Abel

Colin Roust, "Georges Auric and the Ideals of Film Music"

Beth Genne, "'Dance me a Song': Music and Moving Image in the film musicals of Minnelli, Kelly and Donen"

Charles Gentry, "Twice the first time: Cinematic representation and rhetorical redemption in Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996)"


Session II: 10:15–11:45
American Culture Conference Room
3512 Haven Hall

Experiencing Audio-Vision #2

Moderator: Jim Wierzbicki

Carol Hess, "The Spanish Earth: Blitzstein, Thomson, and the Music of Indifference"

Robert Maclean, "Liberated Sounds, Noisy Audiences, and the Jazz Remainder: John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in Sound"

Mark Clague, "Toward a Theory of Live Music: Philip Glass’s Score for Koyaanisqatsi (1982)"


Lunch and Keynote Address: 12:00–1:45, Cottage Inn

Carol Vernallis, Keynote Speaker, "Music Video Directors, Songs and the Transformation of Cinema"

Please RSVP to Colin Roust.


Session III, 2:00–4:00
American Culture Conference Room
3512 Haven Hall

Performing Sound in Vision

Moderator: Paul Anderson

Peter Sparling, "Hear the Dance, See the Music: A Personal History of Musical Embodiment"

Kevin Gaines, "Memory and the Transnational Dimensions of African American Citizenship"

Alicyn Warren, "Composers, Computers, Concerts, Video"


Session IV: 4:00–4:30
American Culture Conference Room
3512 Haven Hall

Wrap-Up Discussion

Leader: Mark Clague

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