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Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-'85

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Call for papers

A Conference at the School of Music, University of Leeds

8-9 June 2018

With the support of the Sadler Seminar fund at the University of Leeds

Convenors for the University of Leeds: Tim Boon, Marian Jago, James
Mooney, Simon Popple and Edward Venn

'Music 625' refers to the television era ushered-in by the higher
definition output of BBC2 in 1964. Tangled in this channel launch here
were both aspirations to technically better television, and questions of
high and low culture. This two-day conference will showcase archive
music programmes as provocations to discussions about the changing
culture and society of three postwar decades from the fifties to the
eighties. We will take individual television programmes as 'boundary
objects' between different disciplines and kinds of creative work. We
will include introduced screenings of archive TV programmes in whole and
in part. The conference will take an interdisciplinary and comparative
approach to its subject: panel discussions will include contrasting
expertise: in production (including from original participants),
historians of TV, musicologists and musicians, bringing together in
discussion musicologists, historians, media studies researchers and
television and music practitioners.

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Our aim is to develop a discussion on the ways in which developing
televisual form has interacted with the development of musical genres.
We aim to understand better how those different genres of so-called
'classical', jazz, pop, 'world' music were differentially treated in the
era's dominating popular medium. We want to use music as a test case for
understanding how ideas of high and low culture operated within the
cultural revolution of the 1960s and after.

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Furthermore, music provides an ideal topic for exploring notions of
performance as an important aspect of TV coverage of the arts; the
category unites musical performance, televisual grammar and the
performance of TV technologies in achieving particular results.

** 'Workshop' workshop**

We expect to make 'Workshop', the pioneering BBC2 music documentary
series (1964-9), a key focus of the meeting; Screenings will be mixed
with historical context, witness seminars and panel discussions on the
televisual and musical significance of the series. Programmes for likely
inclusion: one or more of Barrie Gavin's programmes on Pierre Boulez;
'The Same Trade as Mozart' (on electronic music); and potentially
others.

Other sessions will consider other series, including *Jazz 625* and *The
South Bank Show.* We also expect to draw international comparisons with
Jazz and to consider music as a component of current affairs.

We seek offers of papers and presentations of 20-30 minutes on:

- Interactions between music and television
- Television and the performance of music
- Comparisons between differing musical genres on television
- International comparisons
- Live music TV versus music films for TV
- Music and high and low culture in the long 1960s

The proceedings will be live-streamed and archived for future
consultation.

We aim also to publish a journal special issue deriving from the
proceedings.

Please send offers of 20-minute papers, or other presentations to:
<music625@leeds.ac.uk> by 28^th^ February 2018.

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Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85 Call for papers A Conference at the School of Music, University of Leeds 8-9 June 2018 With the support of the Sadler Seminar fund at the University of Leeds Convenors for the University of Leeds: Tim Boon, Marian Jago, James Mooney, Simon Popple and Edward Venn ‘Music 625’ refers to the television era ushered-in by the higher definition output of BBC2 in 1964.

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CfP: conference “Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85”. June 8-9, 2018 @ School of Music, University of Leeds (UK). Deadline: Feb 28, 2018.