Description
After some musings on the term ‘mediatizing’ and the establishment, in 2009, of the study group Music and Media (aka MaM) under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, I shall address a book I edited together with dr. Emilio Audissino: Cinema Changes: Incorporation of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack (Brepols, 2019). I will zoom in on a chapter in which I argue that many earlier jazz films offer rich referential sources that are widely underestimated by disqualifying them as employing only 'source' music. By analyzing the finale sequence of Black and Tan (Dudley Murphy, 1929)—the on-screen debut of Duke Ellington—I propose that the function of the music here is 'syn-diegetic': synthesizing plural diegetic expressions.The singular 'diegetic' interpretation of music's representation here as 'part of the film's narrative world', while its 'purported source (...is) visible on screen' (M. Cooke 2008, 9) may not be inaccurate, yet its narrows down the narrative complexity with the multi-layered intertextual references of this sequence. The concept of a sheer singular diegetic interpretation is insufficient, even poverty-stricken. I suggest therefore modifying the catch-all term 'diegetic' into a quadruple framework of manifestations of the diegesis to better suit the purpose
| Period | 3 Jun 2022 |
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| Event title | Mediatizing Music: Organized by SV Hucbald |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Utrecht, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |