CHARM Symposium 1
Comparative perspectives in the study of recordings
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham - 14-16 April 2005
The first Symposium held by the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music took place on 14-16 April, 2005, looking at comparative perspectives in the study of recordings drawn from 'art' musicology, popular musicology, ethnomusicology, and interdisciplinary performance studies.
Click here to view the Symposium 1 programme and abstracts
Click on the links below to view the papers from CHARM Symposium 1 (please note that for copyright reasons, music examples listed in the papers may not be available to download):
- Philip Auslander, Sound and vision: record of the past or performance in the present? (pdf file)
- Alf Björnberg, Probing the reception history of recording media: a case study (pdf file)
- Stephen Cottrell, Self and other in the study of historical recordings (pdf file)
- Susan Melrose, Out of words
- Richard Middleton, 'Last night a DJ saved my life': aspects of the social phenomenology of the record (pdf file)
- Allan Moore, The sound of popular music: where are we? (pdf file)
- Janet Topp Fargion, Recordings in context: the place of ethnomusicology archives in the 21st century (pdf file)
- Simon Trezise, Musical archaeology: learning to learn from early music recordings, the pitfalls and the pleasures (pdf file)
- Cecilia Wee, Report from Symposium 1 (pdf file)