- Gender Forum

Dichotonies: A Workshop on Gender and Music
University of Cologne, Germany, June 13-15, 2008
organized by Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier
with Astrid Recker, PhD and Leonhard Kreuzer
The interdisciplinary workshop Dichotonies on the cultural implications and
intersections of music and gender is part of the festival Klang.Körper for
contemporary music in the City of Cologne, which brings together academic
discussions and live concerts, stage productions, exhibitions, and multi-media
installations.
Programme
Thursday, 12 June 2008
19- Conference Warming
Friday, 13 June 2008
Neuer Senatsaal
Hauptgebäude
10-11 Opening: Dichotonies in Dialogue
Welcome Addresses:
Rector of the University of Cologne
Chris Bongartz, Dean of Philosophische Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne)
Annette Kreutziger-Herr (HfM Cologne)
Dichotonies in Dialogue:
Prof. Elisabeth Bronfen (Zürich) and Prof. Melanie Unseld (Oldenburg)
11-13 Session 1. Music Theory – Gender Theory: Interrelations
Introduction: Beate Neumeier
Keynote: Susan McClary (Los Angeles):
“Why Gender Still (as Always) Matters in Music Studies”
Keynote: Chris Weedon (Cardiff):
“Theories, Politics, Practice: Recent Trends in Feminist and Queer
Studies”
14-16 Session 2. Popular Music and the (Performing) Body
Chair: Mita Banerjee
Barbara Bradby (Dublin):
“Girls just wanna say No: Contradiction, the Body, and Self-Destruction in
Contemporary Popular Song”
Carmen Birkle (Marburg):
“Haunting the House of Gender: Marilyn Manson and Gothic Rock”
Ingrid Dahl (New York):
“Acting Rather Than Appearing: Girls Rock the Gender Paradigm”
Georgina Gregory (Preston):
“Resisting and Transgressing Gender Stereotypes Through
Performance of Heavy Metal Music: The Transgender Tribute Band”
Coffee Break
16-18 Session 3. Intermediality and Gender:
Literary Crossovers and Musicals
Chair: Birgit Däwes
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Frankfurt):
“Effeminate Idolatry - the Word and the Violin of Flesh”
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Regula Hohl- Trillini (Basel):
“‘Like perfect music unto noble words’: Gender Metaphors in Victorian
Music Poetry”
Manfred Siebald (Mainz):
“Are Women So Simple? Gender Roles in Kiss Me Kate and the Semiotics of
the Literary Musical”
Kimiko Leibnitz (Würzburg):
“Gender Stereotypes in Hollywood Film Musicals of the 1950s”
Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz/Germersheim):
“Music and Gender in Recent Black and Asian British Film”
Evening Options:
Performances and Concerts (see Festival Programme)
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Neuer Senatssaal
11-13 Session 4. Music Theory, Gender and Sexuality
Chair: Ralph Poole
Fred Everett Maus (Charlottesville, Virginia):
“Time, Embodiment, and Sexuality in Music Theory”
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández (Madrid):
“Playing under (the Illusion of) Control. Virtuosity and Repression in Sex
and Music”
Site-specific sound intervention at the Alter Senatssaal by the art group
DissoNoiSex
Philipp Hofmann (Cologne):
“The Twittering Machine: A Deleuzian Approach”
14-16 Session 5. (Popular) Music and the (Sounding) Body
Chair: Manfred Siebald
Sarah Boak (Surrey):
“Sounding the Recorded Body: Embodiment and Performance in PJ
Harvey’s Uh Huh Her”
Ulli Mayer, Daniela Swarowsky (Vienna/Rotterdam):
“Electronic Music, Embodiment, and the Reconfiguration of Gender as a
Mechanism of Identification”
Andrew Whelan (Dublin):
“The ‘Amen’ Breakbeat as Fratriarchal Totem”
Alice Cantaluppi, Isabel Reiss, Anna Voswinckel (Zurich/Munich/Berlin):
“Lost & Found: Loss and Strategies of Cultural Self-Empowerment”
Coffee Break
16-18 Session 6. Intermediality and Gender:
Music from Screen to Live Act
Chair: Carmen Birkle
Birgit Daewes (Würzburg):
“Sound Tracks to the Frontier: Gender, Difference and Music in the
American Road Movie”
Anna Maria Uhles (Cologne):
“‘Male Gaze’ or Female Agency? – The Female Body in Recent Music
Videos”
Julia Effertz (Oxford):
“Breeding Divas? Female Contestants in Casting Shows – Performance and
Representation in American Idol and Deutschland sucht den Superstar”
Cyprian Piskurek (Dortmund):
“‘Sing when you’re cooking…’: Football Chants and Gender”
Dirk Schulz (Cologne):
“Disco-nstructions: Politics of the Beat”
Banquet
Evening Options:
Performances and Concerts (see Festival Programme)
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Neuer Senatssaal
10-13 Session 7. Music Theory and Gendered Narratives:
From Song to Opera
Chair: Astrid Recker
Lawrence Kramer (New York):
“The Sex of Song: Brigitte Fassbänder’s Winterreise”
Kenneth Gloag (Cardiff):
“Thomas Adès and the Narrative Agendas of Absolute Music”
David Beard (Cardiff):
“From Heroische Bogenstrichen to Waldeinsamkeit: Gender and Genre
in Music by Judith Weir”
Frederika Tsai (Bonn):
“The Characteristic Appearance of Countertenor in 20th- and 21th-Century
Operas”
Jennifer Ronyak (Rochester/Berlin):
“Performing the Lied, Performing the (Gendered) Self: The Case of Luise
Hensel, Die schöne Müllerin, and the Gardener Songs”
14-16 Session 8. Gender and Other Differences:
Hybridising Music
Chair: Klaus Peter Müller
Mita Banerjee (Siegen):
“Country Music, ‘White Trash,’ and Gender Politics”
Ralph Poole (Istanbul):
“Arabesk. Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks”
José Macias (San Antonio):
“Gender Bias in the Corrido: Stability and Change in a Popular MexicoU.S. Music Genre”
Renata Summo-O’Connell (Melbourne):
“Sounds of Change: Ethnic Women Musicians and the Fundamental Right
to Negotiate (Displaced) Identity Within Policies of Exclusion. A Case
Study”
Maria Inigo-Chua (Manila):
“Women, Rituals, and Music: The Fiesta of Virgen de Guadalupe in Bohol,
Philippines”
19-20 Live Broadcast of Round Table Discussion
(WDR, HfM Cologne).