1st Edition

Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis

Edited By Antonio Cascelli, Denis Condon Copyright 2021
232 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing the research of musicologists, art historians, and film studies scholars into dialogue, this book explores the relationships between visual art forms and music. The chapters are organized around three core concepts – threshold, intermediality, and synchresis – which offer ways of understanding and discusssing the interplay between the arts of sounds and images. Refuting the idea... Read more

Setting the Scene

2 -Synch: Scenes of Implication

ALESSANDRA CAMPANA

3 - Armida In-Between. The Translation of the Affetti.

GIOVANNI CARERI


Voice as Presence and Absence

4 - La Voix humaine (1959-2016) and the "Epiphany" of the Performer’s Identity

FRANCESCA PLACANICA

5 - Puppets that Sing or Scenery that Breathes: Phelim McDermott’s Satyagraha

HAYLEY FENN

6 - Manipulating (Public) Images in the Contemporary Music Documentary

JENNIFER O’MEARA

7 - A New Carmen for a Renewed Spain: Nationalism and Cinema during the Spanish Civil War

LAURA MIRANDA


Beyond Borders

8 - "Uber Opera": The Politics of Site-Specific Mobile Opera in Los Angeles

MONICA CHIEFFO

9 - Quel trouble me saisit? The Arrested Gaze of Armide in Poussin, Quinault and Lully

MICHAEL LEE

10 - Music in Cuban Revolutionary Cinema: Musical Experimentation in the Service of Revolutionary Ideology

MARYSOL QUEVEDO

11 - Ken Russell’s Mahler: A Musical Phantasmagoria

PASCAL VANDELANOITTE

12 - There’s Meth in the Madness: Music and Incongruence in AMC’s Breaking Bad

JESSICA SHINE


From Silence to Sound and Back

13 - Music, Painting, Cosmos, Chaos: Flaying and Playing in Titian and Ribera

ITAY SAPIR

14 - Armonia: Seeing and Hearing in Veronese’s Le nozze di Cana

ANTONIO CASCELLI

15 - Listening to Space in Time

SUSANNA PASTICCI

16 - The Allowable Voices of Silent Opera Films in 1910s Ireland

DENIS CONDON

Biography

Antonio Cascelli is Lecturer in Music at Maynooth University, Ireland.

Denis Condon is Lecturer in Film at Maynooth University, Ireland.