Symposium Music in Radio Drama
The Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Department of Media and Culture Studies, and Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid organise a symposium about music in radio drama.
The symposium
Radio drama is regaining popularity in this day and age of podcasts with its possibilities of delayed radio listening. Various new genres developed from old formats and the radio play now also moves outside the radio studio, as sound walks, concert formats and in the context of museum exhibitions. This means that at the crossroads of literary studies, musicology, radio and sound studies and narratology, new approaches to the study of radio drama are being developed.
This symposium brings together scholars and students, radio drama directors, writers, musicians, archivists and radio drama enthusiasts. The goal is to discuss the different functions of music and sound in radio drama and the methodological challenges associated with the precarious archival situation of scores, scripts and the sound archives. Apart from scientists, the makers of recent musical radio dramas De Deense Detective (Rosa Ensemble, Utrecht) and Geen Noot is Onschuldig (Peter te Nuyl) will also speak. There are presentations on the reconstruction of some Dutch musical radio plays from the heyday of the radio drama, such as Alice in Wonderland (KRO 1946) by Else van Epen – De Groot.
This event is in English.
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- Location
- Online (livestream)
- Registration
Send an email with "aanmelding Music in Radio drama" in the subject to secretariaatmcw.gw@uu.nl. One day before the symposium you will receive a link with which you can log in.
- More information
- Read the full programme here