Music Across Media: Functions, Convergence, Meaning (Warszawa)

Call for papers

Music Across Media: Functions, Convergence, Meaning
International Conference
Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, 20-23 April 2017

Deadline: January 31, 2017

Music scores for Star Wars or Indiana Jones have undoubtedly inscribed themselves in popular imagination, not only illustrating the movies, but also co-creating their transmedial storyworlds. One should not forget, at the same time, that movie, TV series or video game soundtracks featured also critically acclaimed soundtracks, such as music to Dracula or, more contemporarily, BAFTA-winning OST for Deus Ex: Human Revolution by Michael McCann. Correspondingly, International Conference Music Across Media, co-organised by Facta Ficta Research Centre in Kraków and The Chopin Institute in Warsaw aims at bringing up more of such examples and bridging a professional musicologist approach with media and fan studies. (…)

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