Music And….Death
Saturday 2nd December – Sunday 3rd December 2017
Vienna, Austria
Final Conference Programme
Saturday 2nd December 2017
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:20 Welcome and opening remarks
9:20 – 10:20
Session 1 – Extreme music and death
Chair: Niall Scott
Black Metal’s representations of death
Camille Béra
Healing the Mother Wound: Metal performance and grief management
Jasmine Shadrack
10:20 – 11:15
Session 2 Grief mourning and the funeral 1
Chair: Cristopher Buckingham
Music in the mourning: on the ritual use of funeral folk songs.
Marek Jeziński
The Posthumous nephew: belated mourning and fresh divinations.
Gary Levy
11:15 – 11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30 – 12:30
Session 3 Death, biography: the public and the private
Chair: Giulia Lorenzi
Pulling off the shroud: Benjamin Britten’s posthumous biographers and the dissolution of privacy.
Thornton Miller
Death in search of the musician.
Sramana Chatterji
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15
Session 4 Death and the Composer
Chair: Jenny Game-Lopata
Mahler and the theory of grief in the symphony no. 2.
Benjamin Lassauzet
Death in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia: between convention and innovation.
Giulia Lorenzi
Ravel’s Great War
David Mosley
15:15 – 15:30 Tea and Coffee
15:30 – 16:30
Session 5 Sounds of salvation
Chair: Marie Josephine Bennett
Sounds of salvation: the iconographic representation of music in Roman Catholic ossuaries.
Anna Hoepflinger and Yves Mueller
The Blood Vote.
Jenny Game-Lopata
16:30 – 17:30
Workshop session – Niall Scott
17:30 – 18:00 Wrap up of the First Day
18:00 Wine Reception
Sunday 3rd December 2017
08:30 – 09:25
Session 6 Death and pop music
Chair: David Gracon
‘I can fly, my friends’: Mercury’s message to go on with the show.
Marie Bennett
Popsongs: a new interpretation of death?
Janneke Bruin-Mollenhorst
09:25 – 10:20
Session 7 Death empirical, political and sociological
Chair: Marek Jeziński
Music of the fears.
Christopher Buckingham
The impact of national tragedy and death thoughts on the selection of sad vs. happy music.
Nathan Heflick and Annemieke van den Tol
10:20 – 11:15
Session 8 Music, death and time
Chair: Gary Levy
Darkened Spaces: Posthumous Silence
Rob Fisher
Death vision (on a January day)
Silvia Teles
11:15 – 11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30 – 12:30
Session 9 Extreme music death nothing and negation
Chair: Camille Béra
Death as negation: Black metal’s disturbing apophatic insight.
Niall Scott
You’re nothing: Punk and death
David Gracon
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15
Round table discussion: Music, Death, Mourning and Culture
15:15 – 15:30 Tea and Coffee
15:30 – 16:00 Developments session
16:00 – 16:30 Final wrap-up