Song Studies

Call for Chapters! 'Song Studies: Approaches and Perspectives' with @AmsterdamUPress Do you work on song in any field or form? Would you like to submit a chapter for the first edited volume that covers the entire field of song studies? Get in touch: see cfp below or DM us!

Join us today 27 Jan, Holocaust Remembrance Day, for the 4th Song Studies Seminar: Songs and Music in Concentration Camps and Prisons, online from 12-13:30 CET. Hear from Anna Papaeti, Elise Petit & @josephtoltz DM for the zoom link.

An exciting call for papers for the Access Folk Singing Symposium at Sheffield in Feb being organised by @esbwet and @fayhield . Abstracts due tomorrow, but a little birdie tells me that the organisers are open to extending the deadline ;-)

Song Studies now has its own book series with @AmsterdamUPress! If you're working in the field of song studies (in any discipline, period, or practice), consider submitting a proposal! For more info: songstudies.org/song-studies… We look forward to reading your exciting submissions.

And Maaheen Ahmed's blog post 'Can Comics Sing?' is now up on the site: songstudies.org/blog-posts-b… Be sure to check it out! #SongStudiesLaunch

At the end of this launch day, we are delighted to announce an event taking place on 10 September, from 15h-17h30 CEST 🔔 It will be a speed dating event where our members can get to know each other better🤓Interested in participating? Send us a message! songstudies.org/our-first-wo…

Last but not least, Theo Trost introduces himself to us! He teaches at the University of Alabama and is currently writing about the ways in which songs project, protect, and interrogate national identity. youtu.be/hzMbZhUuf4I

Want to know how to make the world safe for musical comedy? Stay tuned for the upcoming blog: 'Can Comics Sing?' by Maaheen Ahmed from @COMICSUGent

The song 'Shotns' (Shadows) was written by Feyge Gurman, a Holocaust survivor.The melody is derived from a popular Russian tune. Song researcher and singer Joseph Toltz is here accompanied by Eddie Bronson on accordeon. youtu.be/FeoYHTbqSEU

Tine De Koninck tells us about her research on the cultural transfer of French 'air de cour' melodies in seventeenth-century songbooks in the Southern Netherlands 🎼 youtu.be/qtK8XEbsH5w

“Chasing Dreams” (2014), a song for voice and acoustic guitar, describing the moments before a loved one wakes in the early morning ☀️ Written and performed by Lauren Michelle Levesque. youtu.be/eT5OtdjVcCQ

Dating from the early 18C, this ballad tells of the Duke of Dorset’s courtship of Irish chieftain Granuaile and her rejection of his offers to bring her to London. It was parodied in numerous election ballads and other political songs 🖨️ youtube.com/watch?v=wc4a2IJX…

The research of Doina Kraal finds its origins in the historical 'Rarekiek', a life-size peepshow box conceived as a translation of the macrocosm in the form of a microcosm and inspired by the rarekiek or peepshow. doinakraal.com

In the midst of the first COVID-19 lockdown, Emilio Aguilar performed a villancico from Cancionero de Upsala in an underpass in the neighborhood where he lives: the Indische Buurt in Amsterdam 🗣️🗣️youtu.be/xl4wlX7OOMY

Another collaboration with the great @CamerataTraject, is led by @reneevulto. Later this year, Camerata will record a selection of songs from the Dutch revolutionary period in the 18th century. 🇳🇱 Here is a little teaser, performed by Nico van der Meel!

The research group 'Dealing with disasters' (dealingdisasters.nl) looks at the cultural representations of disasters. @LotteJensen14 investigated Dutch songs about disasters: openjournals.nl/index.php/bm…. Twenty Dutch songs were recorded by ensemble @CamerataTraject! 🎻

@MeunierJeanCha1 studies Bob Dylan's songs using multimodality to show intermodal shifts of meaning and the importance of context: "In this homemade recording (my own translation), I focused on Dylan’s colloquial language and the rising tension between the protagonists". 🎸

Here are @JFRushworth of @UCLSELCS and @mcswrites of @OxMusicFaculty performing a song known as #Schubert's 'Adieu' (hint: it's not by Schubert). It's sung by the protagonist of Marcel #Proust's novel. youtu.be/rjqsHDGlwTE

@HelenAbbott1 researches French song. What happens to the French language when sung? Analysis of sung French from the @BaudelaireProj Song Project shows song to be a network of interrelations between words and music, rather than a simple fusion of the two.

John Street tells us about his research project 'Our Subversive Voice', writing the history of the English protest song ✊ youtu.be/PBg_Kk5yxaM