Lecture at the international conference Returning the Screen. Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film & Media History, XXVII International Film and Media Studies Conference (Filmforum), University of Udine Gorizia.
Beitrag von Alois Pumhösel über das vom FWF geförderten Projekt "Soundscapes von ,Heimat'" im DER STANDARD (Beilage Forschung Spezial)
Im Rahmen der digitalen Ringvorlesung "LIVE TALK Junge Musikwissenschaft stellt sich vor - aus Berlin und der ganzen Welt", Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität der Künste Berlin.
This project aims to contribute to the clarification of the concept of 'home' by showing how it is created in relation to media and pop music
and how it influences a sense of collective identity and social belonging. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the medium of film has proved to be an essential constructive element of 'home' in the German-speaking world. In the research literature on 'homeland' films and mountain films of Austrian/German film production, the important role of music in these films has so far been given little attention.
Publication
This book examines the musical performance practice of silent film in Germany in the 1920s and sheds light on the early attempts at a theory and aesthetics of film music. The starting point for the study is the "Allgemeine Handbuch der Film-Musik" from 1927. Thereby, the genesis of film music conventions will be explored as well as the intermedial relationship between silent film music and music-aesthetic traditions.