Programme 2020

This is a preliminary programme, there may be changes.

DAY 1: Wednesday 1 July

 

09:00 Welcome & registration
09:30 – 11:00 Keynote
Juliane Brauer

Singing as an emotional practice. A theoretical approach of studying singing in history.
11:15 – 12:25 Session 1: Community

This panel discusses collective singing practices, focussing on cultural transfer within song and questions of (national) identity.
  • Lotte Jensen

    The Role of Literary Techniques in Shaping Local and National identities. Singing About Floods in the Netherlands Throughout the Ages

  • Lea Wierød Borčak

    Untangling the Functions of Music and Words in Community Singing
12:25 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:45 Session 2: Ritual

This panel explores how songs function in ritual contexts, and how they can be used to construct and maintain social or religious identities.
  • Henk Vogel

    Performed Identities – Identity construction in Genemuider ‘bovenstem psalm’ Performances

  • Bidisha Chakraborty

    Songs of Separation: A Study of Bidaai Geet

  • Tamara Turner

    Leaning into Sharpness: Song, Bodily Technique, and the Intentional Precipitation of Pain in Algerian Sufi Trance Rituals
16:00 – 17:45 Session 3: Embodiment

This panel discusses the role of the singing body in collective singing practices, focussing on an embodiment of that wat is sung, through singing, and therewith investigating the function of such practices in a social context.
  • Uffe Holmsgård Eriksen

    Embodying the Sacred: Metalepsis and Interpellation in Hymn Singing

  • Lauren Michelle Levesque

    Moving and Sounding Together? A Critical Conversation on Singing and Song in Contemporary Peacebuilding

  • Renée Vulto

    What a Song Can Do – Investigating the Political Agency of Song Through Performance Historiography
17:45 Reception
20:00 Private concert by the El Grillo choir

DAY 2: Thursday 2 July

 

09:00 – 10:00 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Song and Singing Practies in Australia
Video report of the conference held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney, in association with the Song Studies 2020 conference in Ghent.
 10:15 – 12:00 Session 4: Voice
This panel offers new ways to think about the singing voice, focussing on role of listening to the singing voice and its specific qualities.
  • Malte Kobel & Isabella van Elferen
    Listening to Singing, or the Voice and its Ear
  • Gustavo Penha
    Solfege and Becoming-Voice in the Analytic Listening
  • Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro & Omri Ruah-Midbar

    What is “Human”? The “Vocal Cyborg” as a Historic-Cultural Turning Point
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
 13:30 – 15:15 Session 5: Action
In this panel, singing is explored as an action that is engaged in other bodily practices, therewith conceiving of song as a connective element in various practices.
  • Leonie Persyn & Adriana La Selva

    Song as a Mode of Acting: Sing with us, or how to get ideas grooving. / The architecture of sonic affects. A conversation.

  • Elisabeth Lutteman

    Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama

  • Johan M. Staxrud

    Singing/building the Railway – The Norwegian Rallarvise
15:30 – 17:15 Session 6: Orality

This panel focusses on the tensions between oral and material existences of songs, investigating how songs may have sounded in the past.
  • Anne Sigrid Refsum
    Norwegian Cheap Print Ballads of the Early 19th Century – Where Orality Meets Mass Media
  • Doina Kraal
    The Sensory Enchantment of the World Through the Rarekiek
  • Nicholas Hammond

    Rediscovering and Recreating Seventeenth-Century Parisian Street Songs
19:00 Conference dinner

DAY 3: Friday 3 July

 

 09:00 – 10:45 Session 7: Genre
This panel questions the traditional the boundaries of song, exploring new ways of analysing the genre and offering new ways of thinking about the medium.
  • Helen Abbott

    Networks of Song: Song as Network, Songs in Networks

  • Bjarne Markussen

    Poetry Meets Rap: Kate Tempest’s ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ (2016)

  • Maaheen Ahmed

    Songs of Lightness and Dissent in the Comics of the 1980s: ‘V for Vendetta’ and ‘Neil the Horse’
 11:00 – 12:10 Session 8: Experience
This panel explores how aesthetics of the natural and the artificial are reflected in the sensorial experience of speech and song, and adresses the relationship between popular song and art song and audience experiences of singing.
  • Emilio A. Aguilar Balbuena

    Tacotron’s Grain: Prosodic Transfer between Song and Speech

  • Stewart Campbell

    Songs Without Borders: Investigating Audience Experience of Live Art Song in the UK
12:10 -` 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:15 Session 9: Intertextuality

This panel looks into cultural transfer within song, focussing on the relationship between text and melody through the process of contrafact, in the early modern period as well as today
  • Cécile de Morrée

    Tune-References as Versatile Methodological Instruments: a Novel Approach to Cultural Transfer through Song in the late medieval Low Countries

  • Carmen Verhoeven

    The Contrafact – a Premodern Phenomenon? Methodological Considerations for Studying Modern Lyrics on Existing Melodies

  • Tine De Koninck

    “Entre piété et frivolité”, the Cultural Transfer of French Air de Cour Melodies into Sacred Songbooks in the Seventeenth-Century Southern Low Countries.
15:30 – 16:30 Closing