It is our pleasure to invite you to London for the Ninth International Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The local organizers are Robert Samuels, of the Department of Music at The Open University, and Delia da Sousa Correa, of the Department of English at The Open University. The conference is held in association with The Institute of Musical Research, The Institute of English Studies, and the Literature and Music Research Group of The Open University.
The conference will be organized into three sections, the first being devoted to the primary theme of “Silence, Absence and Ellipsis in Words and Music”. The second section, “Surveying the Field”, involves papers that deal with general theoretical and methodological questions intrinsic to the established scholarly field of Word and Music Studies. The conference will also include a section of “Word and Music Studies Working Papers”. This section will include shorter papers which reflect work-in-progress in the field of Word and Music Studies. A total of nearly fifty participants from around the world will give papers and recitals over the four days of the conference, and we are confident that like previous conferences of the Association, this will be another significant event in the field.
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Delia da Sousa Correa, Katia Chornik, and Robert Samuels, ‘Literature and Music: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching at The Open University’, in “Crossing the Divides: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Researching English Studies”, a special issue of the electronic journal Working With English: Modern and Medieval Language, Literature and Drama. You can also download the article as a PDF file [283 KB]