Staging American Sounds Seminar

STAGING AMERICAN SOUNDS International conference

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID 9-10 MAY 2013

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 9 MAY

9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30- 11.00 Panel Session 1: Soundscapes (Chair: Noelia Hernando Real, UCM)

Dídac Llorens (UNED)

The Sounds of The Turn of the Screw: From the Page to the Opera House

Annika Eisenberg (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz) “I, too, sing America” – Poetic Soundscapes of New York City in Jazz Poetry

Esther Sánchez-Pardo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Documenting Protest: Muriel Rukeyser and the Radio Poem

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-13.00 Keynote Lecture

(Chair: Fabio L. Vericat, UCM)

Professor Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)

The Inner Stage of Voice: Barbra Streisand, Toni Morrison, and “Secondary Vocality”

13.00-14.15 Lunch break

14.15-15.45 Panel Session 2: Singing Americas (Chair: Noelia Hernando Real, UCM)

Claude Chastagner (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3)

From the Back Door to Center Stage: The Music of the Tejanos

Delia Poey (Florida State University) To the Beat of their Own Drum: Women in Salsa

Anne Stefani (Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail)

Sounds of Freedom: Music in the 1960s Southern Civil Rights Movement

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.00 Panel Session 3: Voice Matters (Chair: Ana Fernández-Caparrós, UCM)

Elizabeth Micakovic (University of Exeter)

Laboratory Voices: American Modernismʼs Phonographic Curatorship

Fabio L. Vericat (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) “No such thing as a voice pure and simple”: American Elocution and the Enunciation of

the Literary Text in Henry James's The American

Srijani Ghosh (Michigan State University) Talkinʼ that talk: The American Vernacular in Anita Loosʼs Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Valerie M. Joyce (Villanova University)

(Dis)Embodied Voices: Developing Dialects for Distinctive Characters

20.30 Conference Dinner: RESTAURANTE PARRILLA DEL MAGO

C/ San Agustín 13, Madrid

FRIDAY 10 MAY

10.00-11.00 Panel Session 4: American Dramas (Chair: Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University)

Annalisa Brugnoli (Unversità Caʼ Foscari Venezia)

Breaking the Fourth Wall through Silence: Suzan-Lori Parksʼs Topdog/Underdog

Carla Della Gatta (Northwestern University) Singing Racial and Ethnic Conflict: U.S. Shakespearean Productions in Britainʼs 2012

Cultural Olympiad 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-13.00 Panel Session 5: The Sounds of Ethnic Diversity

(Chair: Fabio L. Vericat, UCM)

Nathalie Dessens (Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail) The Sounds of Babel: Staging American Ethnic Diversity in Early Nineteenth-Century

New Orleans

Soizic Croguennec (Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail) Colonial Justice and Dramatization: Castas and Spaniards Before the Judge

(Zacatecas- first half of the 18th century)

Patricia Alves de Carvalho Lobo (Universidade de Lisboa) Todas las voces que me hablan simultáneamente: Chicana Voices from the

Borderlands

13.00-14.15 Lunch break

14.15-15.45 Panel Session 6: Musical Imagery (Chair: Esther Sanchez-Pardo, UCM)

Candice Lemaire (Université Toulouse II Le Mirail)

Songs of the Wave: Frostian Poetics of Resurgence

Jefferey Simons (Universidad de Huelva) The Incidence of Dickinsonʼs Ear

Eulalia Piñero Gil (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

“Music evoked pictures in her mind”: The Emotional Effects of Artistic Synaesthesia in Kate Chopinʼs The Awakening

16.00-17.00 Panel Session 7: Sound Technologies

(Chair: Ana Fernández-Caparrós, UCM)

Brooks E. Hefner (James Madison University) Race in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Recording Technology and the Sounds

of Minstrelsy at the Turn of the Century

María Goicoechea (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) The Mechanic Ear: American Sound Poetry in the Digital Age

17.00-18.00 Closing words and round table on future perspectives

CAÑAS & TAPAS Enjoy Madridʼs nightlife!

DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGÍA INGLESA II

All sessions will take place in room A-217

Scientific and Organizing Committee: Ana Fernández-Caparrós, Noelia Hernando-Real, Fabio L. Vericat