Word and Music Studies: Seventh International Conference (2009)
June 10 – 13, 2009
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
First Circular and Registration Form, January 2009
On behalf of the International Association for Word and Music Studies, Gerold W. Gruber, as the local organiser, is very pleased to invite you to Vienna, for the Association’s seventh biennial conference, with the special theme of Performativity in Words and Music and a Word and Music Studies Forum.
The conference takes place at three sites of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, which are located within walking distance from one another (5 to 15 minutes): Rennweg 8, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, and Lothringerstraße 18. These sites are situated in the third city district (Bezirk) near the Stadtpark (with its Johann Strauß monument), the gorgeous Belvedere palace, and the Konzerthaus Wien. The Vienna State Opera, the Musikverein, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral can also easily be reached within 5 to 10 minutes.
Local Information
Accommodation
In the vicinity of the conference sites a great number of hotels can be found, of which the following are warmly recommended:
- Hotel am Schubertring
- Hotel Lindner - Hotel am Belvedere
- Hotel am Konzerthaus
These hotels charge 130-150 Euros for a single, and 150-180 Euros for a double room per night (breakfast included).
As low-priced alternatives, which are not near the conference sites but can easily be reached by bus or underground, we recommend the following hotels (single from 50 Euros, double from 70 Euros, without breakfast):
For people expecting highest standards, we recommend Hotel Intercont, Hotel Imperial, SAS Hotel, and Hotel Marriot, all of which are located around the Stadtpark. If you prefer your own booking, we recommend using the web portal www.expedia.de. There you can also find bargain offers of 5-star hotels, which, however, may not be located near the conference sites.
I ask you to place your reservations as soon as possible (deadline 15 February, 2009) as in June, during the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen), hotel rooms are in high demand. Please give definite dates of your arrival and departure.
In the evening of Wednesday, 10 June, 2009, there will be a conference warming at a typical Viennese “Beisl”. Please let me know whether you are planning to come to this.
Events
On Saturday afternoon (13 June, 2009) we are planning an excursion to one of the most attractive regions of Austria, the Wachau, which is on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list. The Wachau is a 30 kilometre stretch of the Danube valley, between Krems and Melk, with picturesque villages (Dürnstein), cultural highlights (Melk monastery), and widespread vineyards on steep slopes near the river. Also one of the oldest prehistoric sculptures, dating from 25 000 BC, the Venus of Willendorf, was found in the area. We will visit Melk monastery, take a boat trip on the river, and have an authentic evening meal (“Brettl-Jause”) at a typical local “Heuriger”. The charge for the excursion will be 57 Euros per person, including the bus fare, the guided tour of the monastery, the boat trip, and the evening meal (with a glass of wine).
Contact Information
ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerold W. Gruber
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Lothringerstraße 18, A-1030 Wien
Telefon: (+43/1) 711 55-3501, Fax: (+43/1) 711 55-3599
e-mail: gerold.gruber@exilarte.at or gruber-g@mdw.ac.at
Provisional List of Speakers and Their Papers
Performativity in Words and Music
Frieder von Ammon (Munich): “How To Do Things With Words and Music: The Performative Poetry of Ernst Jandl”
Paul Barker (London): “Paradigms Lost & Paradigms Regained: An Evaluation of a Performative Approach to Music and Words”
Walter Bernhart (Graz): “Rhythmical Ambivalence of Performance: The Case of Elizabethan Verse and Songs”
Mary Breatnach (Edinburgh): “Performativity in Word and Music: Baudelaire, Debussy and ‘Harmonie du soir’”
Emilie Crapoulet (Guildford): “Intermediality in Performance: From Aloysius Bertrand’s La Nuit et ses Prestiges to Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit”
Delia da Sousa Correa (Milton Keynes): “Musical Performance and the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield”
Magda Dragu (Bloomington, IN): “‘Performance Art’ and the Art of Performance”
Mario Dunkel (Dortmund): “Charles Mingus and Performative Composing“
Katrin Eggers (Hannover): “Re-reading Wittgenstein: The Role of Performativity in a Theory of Musical Pragmatics”
Martina Elicker (Graz): “Performative Imperative: Opera and Drama”
Axel Englund (Stockholm/New York, NY): “Three Performances of ‘Tübingen, Jänner’ by Paul Celan”
Amanda Glauert (London): “Kennst du das Land: Performing the ‘Land of the Soul’ through Poetry or Music”
Joachim Grage (Freiburg): “Performing Poetry as Song: Singing Songs as Literary Practice in Scandinavia”
Michael Halliwell (Sydney): “‘Vocal Embodiment in Waiting for the Barbarians’: Philip Glass’s Adaptation of J M Coetzee’s Novel”
Regula Hohl Trillini (Basel): “‘We neither of us perform to strangers’: Jane Austen Denouncing the Regency Commodification of Music”
John Irving (Bristol): “Mozart’s Words and Mozart’s Music: Understanding His Piano Sonata in C, K. 309”
Tobias Janz (Hamburg): “Performativity and the Musical Work of Art”
Lawrence Kramer (New York, NY): “Sexing Song: Brigitte Fassbaender’s Winterreise”
Bernhard Kuhn (Lewisburg, PA): “Operatic Hyperreality in the 21st Century: Performance Documentation in High-Definition Quality”
Adrian Paterson (Oxford): “‘Music will keep out temporary ideas’: Words and Music in W. B. Yeats’s Radio Broadcasts”
Emily Petermann (Konstanz): “Jazz Novels and the Textualization of Musical Performance”
Beate Schirrmacher (Stockholm): “Performing Narration: Echoes of the Tin Drum in Günter Grass’s Work”
Regina Schober (Hannover): “Amy Lowell as Orator: Poetic Performativity in Literary Modernism”
Mia Tootill (University Park, PA): “Performance Traditions of Schumann’s Manfred”
David Francis Urrows (Hong Kong): “Text vs. Act: The Bearbeitungsfrage and the ‘Romantic Baroque’”
Deborah Weagel (Albuquerque): “The Edited Performance: Glenn Gould’s Solitude Trilogy”
Simon Williams (Santa Barbara, CA): “Romantic Opera and the Rise of the Singing-Actor” Surveying the Field
Peter Dayan (Edinburgh): “Seeing Words and Music as a Painter Might: The Interart Appeal”
Kenneth DeLong (Calgary): “Music about Thinking – Thinking about Music: Music and Metaphor in Liszt’s Il Penseroso”
Word and Music Studies Forum
Matthew Carlson (Chapel Hill, NC): “Auden in Austria: the Poet as Librettist”
Katia Chornik (Milton Keynes): “Boos and Hoorays: Performances in Carpentier’s Novels”
Christine Hermann (Vienna): The ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ in Literature and Music“
Emma Hooper (Norwich): “Instrumental Portraiture: The Use of Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme in My Creative Process as Novelist”
David L. Mosley (Louisville, KY): “Milan Kundera’s Contrapuntal Prose and the Poetics of Divestment”
Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen (Aarhus): “Performativity in Hip Hop: Words and Music”
Laura Wahlfors (Helsinki): “Playing the Piano with Roland Barthes: From Musical/Textual jouissance to Music as an Embodied Signifying Practice”