Revisiting Unword - sound as radical discourse

Claire Holdsworth

Revisiting Unword - sound as radical discourse

Claire Holdsworth

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

Between 1969 and 1970 Ian Breakwell undertook four performance permutations entitled Unword. Using this work as an example, this 15-minute paper considered how text and the act of speaking are subject to radical interdisciplinary experimentation via recording. Framed by the happenings and counter-cultural Underground specific to London during the late 1960s, it traced maps across the city, considering how the radical intermedial discourses of live works such as Unword echo forwards in 'reconstructions‘. The re-recorded nature of this piece enhances complex discourses over-time, indicating how radical re-conceptions of sound and language affect re-articulation of avant-garde discourses - particularly in the ways that such examples are re-shown, re-written and re-visited today.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Impact: Organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies in collaboration with the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, this conference brought together academics and researchers from America, France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal amongst others. These contributors work across multiple disciplines, from musicology, sound art and composition to graphic design, literature, poetry, art history and social/cultural histories, and information about the conference and its website has been shared digitally by contributors as well as host institutions. Open to the public, the conference also involved live screenings, workshops and performance events in Lisbon, adding to the programmes of a number cultural venues such as MAAT and ZDB Gallery. A conference publication (in English) is due to be published in 2018/2019. Organised by Anabel Duarte and Andrew Hussey. Organising Body: Hosted by the American Studies Research Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Stu
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2017

Bibliographical note

Note: Impact: Organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies in collaboration with the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, this conference brought together academics and researchers from America, France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal amongst others. These contributors work across multiple disciplines, from musicology, sound art and composition to graphic design, literature, poetry, art history and social/cultural histories, and information about the conference and its website has been shared digitally by contributors as well as host institutions. Open to the public, the conference also involved live screenings, workshops and performance events in Lisbon, adding to the programmes of a number cultural venues such as MAAT and ZDB Gallery. A conference publication (in English) is due to be published in 2018/2019. Organised by Anabel Duarte and Andrew Hussey.

Organising Body: Hosted by the American Studies Research Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL), Portugal, in collaboration with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Impact: Organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies in collaboration with the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, this conference brought together academics and researchers from America, France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal amongst others. These contributors work across multiple disciplines, from musicology, sound art and composition to graphic design, literature, poetry, art history and social/cultural histories, and information about the conference and its website has been shared digitally by contributors as well as host institutions. Open to the public, the conference also involved live screenings, workshops and performance events in Lisbon, adding to the programmes of a number cultural venues such as MAAT and ZDB Gallery. A conference publication (in English) is due to be published in 2018/2019. Organised by Anabel Duarte and Andrew Hussey.

Organising Body: Hosted by the American Studies Research Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL), Portugal, in collaboration with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Keywords

American studies and anglophone area studies

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Holdsworth, C. (2017). Revisiting Unword - sound as radical discourse. In Impact: Organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies in collaboration with the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, this conference brought together academics and researchers from America, France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal amongst others. These contributors work across multiple disciplines, from musicology, sound art and composition to graphic design, literature, poetry, art history and social/cultural histories, and information about the conference and its website has been shared digitally by contributors as well as host institutions. Open to the public, the conference also involved live screenings, workshops and performance events in Lisbon, adding to the programmes of a number cultural venues such as MAAT and ZDB Gallery. A conference publication (in English) is due to be published in 2018/2019. Organised by Anabel Duarte and Andrew Hussey. Organising Body: Hosted by the American Studies Research Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Stu

Holdsworth, Claire. / Revisiting Unword - sound as radical discourse. Impact: Organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies in collaboration with the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, this conference brought together academics and researchers from America, France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal amongst others. These contributors work across multiple disciplines, from musicology, sound art and composition to graphic design, literature, poetry, art history and social/cultural histories, and information about the conference and its website has been shared digitally by contributors as well as host institutions. Open to the public, the conference also involved live screenings, workshops and performance events in Lisbon, adding to the programmes of a number cultural venues such as MAAT and ZDB Gallery. A conference publication (in English) is due to be published in 2018/2019. Organised by Anabel Duarte and Andrew Hussey. Organising Body: Hosted by the American Studies Research Group of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Stu. 2017.

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