Category: Sound/music
MAKING JAZZ 1080: TELEVISION PRODUCTION AS PROCESS by Nicolas Pillai
This blog post was originally published by the AHRC. After The Fast Show, how does one...
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CfP: Jazz Research Journal special issue on ‘Jazz Television’. Deadline: Sept 8, 2017
In an account of Roland Kirk’s appearance on the television programme Soul!, Gayle Wald argues...
Read MoreIT’S NOT GHOSTS … IT’S HISTORY: THE SONIC QUALITIES OF BRITISH SUPERNATURAL TELEVISION by Mark Fryers
British history is full of strange and disturbing noises. They rebound and echo, providing a constant reminder to future generations of the violent noises of the past- signalling colonial atrocities, and the stifled...
Read MoreFAREWELL CLASS OF ’58, WELCOME LEICESTER CITY; BUT REALLY, A SHOUT-OUT TO OLODUM by Toby Miller
The death of Prince and the triumph of Leicester City in the English Premier League. One inevitable, the other not so. Each, untimely. No-one really knows as yet why either event occurred. One should become clear in the near...
Read MoreMUSIC IN DVD AND ON DEMAND – SOUNDS THE SAME? by Liz Giuffre
At the moment I’m editing a book on Music in Comedy Television. As part of the project I decided to go back to iconic pieces of comedy television I remember having had a musical impact, starting with 80s sitcoms (judge me, go...
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CfP: conference “Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85”. June 8-9, 2018 @ School of Music, University of Leeds (UK). Deadline: Feb 28, 2018.
Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85 Call for papers A Conference at the...
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30 YEARS OF RAGE AND NO SIGNS OF QUIETENING by Liz Giuffre
Music video program Rage made its debut on ABC TV 30 years ago this week, on Friday April 17 1987....
Read MoreBEYONCÉ’S LEMONADE AND THE TRANSMEDIA SWIRL by Jennifer O’Meara
In 2013, Carol Vernallis published a brilliant book called Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video and the New Digital Cinema. In it, she eloquently describe the ‘media swirl’ which characterises the contemporary audiovisual...
Read MoreDARLING JAMES CORDEN IN PROPER REALITY TELEVISION – THE JOY OF CARPOOL KARAOKE by Liz Giuffre
British television fans need no convincing of James Corden’s smiley, shiny, naughty wonderful. From host to writer to actor to bloody nice singer and dancer, he’s annoying good at many showbizzy things (plus, he seems just...
Read MoreCROSSING ALL OF TIME, SPACE AND SOUNDSCAPES – THE DOCTOR BREAKS THE DIEGETIC SOUND BARRIER by Liz Giuffre
Doctor Who fans were perhaps expecting a slow 2015. As Steven Moffat said himself in a recent interview with The Radio Times, “This year is not a new Doctor year, it’s not an anniversary, or a new companion year … it’s dangerous...
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