Global Blake Symposium:
Musical Afterlives

 

A free one-day, online symposium from the Global Blake Network exploring musical settings of Blake's poetry and his inspiration on classical and popular artists.

 
Date: 4 November, 2024 (online via Zoom)

Admission: Free

Keynote Speaker: Barry Miles



The aim of this symposium is to present a comprehensive discussion of Blake's reception in music in order to understand not only the genesis and motivations of the phenomenon, but also its endurance in the digital age, when multimedia and intermediality play a central role in the dissemination of literature. It also encompasses the articulation of word, sound and image in the appropriation of his work, which ranges from album covers and posters to music settings.

 
To more information and to register for this event please go to www.globalblake.com/symposium-musical-afterlives/ or click HERE.
 
 

Panels and Speakers

(All times are given in UK Time.)

10.30-10.45: Welcome
Camila Oliveira and Jason Whittaker will introduce the day's talks.
 
10.45-12.15: “Labours of the Artist, Poet and Musician”
  • ‘And the Song they sung was this / Composed by an African Black’: Blakean Spirituals – James Keery and Steve Clark
  • "Relationships of ownership / They whisper in the wings": Bob Dylan and William Blake – Luke Walker
  • William Blake & Visionary Cover Arts – Camila Oliveira
 
12.30-1.30: Keynote
  • Ginsberg's Blake Recordings – Barry Miles
 
2.00-4.00: Blake’s Music in the World
  • William Blake in Russian Music in 2010s - 2020s – Vera Serdechnaia
  • William Blake’s Poetic Rhythm in Selected Country Music by Don Williams – Sola Ogunbayo
  • “In Satan's Mire”: Bruce Dickinson's Chemical Wedding to William Blake –Andrio J. R. dos Santos
 
4.15-5.45: Blake and the New Age
  • Blake and New Age Music – Jacob Smith
  • Some spiritual, political and academic contexts of Allen Ginsberg’s Blake recordings – Luke Walker
  • Contemporary Musical Settings of William Blake’s Poetry – Cleopatra David
 
6.00-6.30: Round Table Discussion
In which all our speakers and the symposium organisers will discuss the ongoing reception of William Blake in contemporary music.

 
Our Autumn/Winter 'In Conversation' Series
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7 October, 2024 at 19.00-20.00
 
William Rubel – ‘A Fly Like Thee?’
2 December, 2024 at 19.00-20.00
 
Ramazan Saral – Wedding with Eternity: Death in the Poetry of Blake and Rumi
13 January, 2025 at 19.00-20.00
 
For more information and to register please go to: www.globalblake.com/events
New Podcasts from the Global Blake Network.

Our latest podcast is live - 'William Blake at BARS 2024', in which Sharon Choe is joined by other Blake scholars - Hannah McAuliffe, Jodie Marley, Jake Elliott and Annise Rogers - to discuss the range of talks and papers on William Blake at 2024 British Association of Romanticism Studies conference and consider some of the futures for Blake studies. You can watch it at globalblake.com/podcasts/

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