THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP
A CRITICAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Call for Papers: Sound & Music in Film & Television
While it is common to speak of seeing a film, audiences spend as
much time listening. Film sound theorist Michel Chion notes that "we
never see the same thing when we also hear; we don't hear the same
thing when we see as well." Scholars are increasingly recognizing
the crucial role of sound and music in the larger media experience.
Issue #51 of The Velvet Light Trap will examine specific uses of
sound and their importance in media production and consumption. The
editors welcome essays that address the roles played by sound and
music in the larger signifying processes of film, television, and
related media.
Possible topics for this issue include but are not limited to:
=85 Image/sound relationships & strategies (e.g. music & narrative,
thematic usage, sound effects)
=85 Film music composers, foley artists, sound engineers
=85 Exhibition practices (e.g. sound systems, orchestras, muzak, the
Japanese benshi narrative tradition)
=85 Audience sounds (laughter, screams, silence, etc.)
=85 Musical shorts, scopitones, & video jukeboxes
=85 Sound and genre (e.g. musicals, westerns, horror, action, teen
films, animation, etc.)
=85 Music Television & "MTV-ization" of music aesthetics & industrial strate=
gies
=85 Sound and representations of race, class & gender
=85 Made-for-TV rock and roll (e.g. The Monkees, American Bandstand, etc.)
=85 Voice, intonation, and meaning-making
=85 Soundtrack albums & the consumption of film & TV music (e.g.
crossover marketing)
=85 International contexts (e.g. film dubbing, Bollywood, etc.)
=85 Sound, music, & emotion (evocations of nostalgia, euphoria, loss)
=85 History of sound technologies in film & television (e.g.
microphones, gramophones, Dolby, DTS)
=85 Convergence of sound styles across media (e.g. film and video games, etc=
=2E)
=85 Music documentaries (e.g. Woodstock, Buena Vista Social Club, etc.)
To be considered for publication, papers should be between 15 and 25
pages, double-spaced, in MLA style, with the author's name and
contact information included only on the cover page. Queries
regarding potential submissions also are welcome. Authors are
responsible for acquiring related visual images and the associated
copyrights. For more information or to submit a query, please
contact Kyle Barnett (ksbarnett@mail.utexas.edu). All submissions
are due January 15, 2002.
The Velvet Light Trap is an academic, refereed journal of film and
television studies published semi-annually by University of Texas
Press. Issues are coordinated alternately by graduate students at
the University of Texas-Austin and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. After a prescreening, articles are anonymously
refereed by specialist readers of the journal's Editorial Advisory
Board, which includes such notable scholars as Donald Crafton,
Michael Curtin, Alexander Doty, Cynthia Fuchs, Herman Gray, Heather
Hendershot, Barbara Klinger, Walter Metz, Charles Musser, Chon
Noriega, Lynn Spigel, and Chris Straayer.
Please address submissions to:
The Velvet Light Trap
c/o The Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas at Austin
CMA 6.118, Mail Code A0800
Austin, TX 78712
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