PLEASE POST AND DISTRIBUTE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: FOR A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON FILM AND POPULAR MUSIC We are seeking essays on film and popular music for a new anthology which Duke University Press has provisionally agreed to publish. Our goal is to compile a reader on film and popular music that will be useful for undergraduate and graduate classes in film and/or popular music, and that could appeal to trade audiences as well. For the purposes of this volume, "popular" will mean primarily sung music, including Tin Pan Alley, disco, rock, pop, jazz and easy listening. Within this rubric, we will consider music written specifically for films, prereleased/prerecorded music on film, diegetic music and nondiegetic music. We are interested in a variety of uses of popular music, encompassing a range of genres (musicals, documentary, avant-garde, short films, etc.), national cinemas, directors, musical performers, and formal and ideological issues. Possible topics might include but are not limited to: - questions of race, ethnicity, sex, and gender in relation to the use of popular music in film - the circulation of film music outside the film text and the relationship between film and records/Cds -- including marketing soundtracks, the Best Song Category at the Academy Awards, "covers" and "quotation" with regard to film soundtracks - popular music and memory/nostalgia/postmodernism - representations of recording, performing, buying, listening to popular music - new theories of the sound/image relation -- including the slippery distinction beween diegetic and nondiegetic music in film, fidelity of the sound, lipsynching ("visible" and "invisible"), music as "wallpaper", etc. - new theories of the musical and essays on "new" musicals (Everybody Says I Love You, Evita, The Adventures of Priscilla, etc) Send abstracts or papers to BOTH: Pamela Robertson Arthur Knight Department of English American Studies Program University of Newcastle College of William and Mary Callaghan, Newcastle NSW 2308 P.O. Box 8795 AUSTRALIA Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 USA For more information, write to [log in to unmask] Deadline: 31 May 1997 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]