{"id":5485,"date":"2016-11-29T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2019-02-17T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T18:12:37","slug":"workshop-on-music-scholarship-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2016\/11\/5485\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Music Scholarship this Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Workshop on Music and Creative Arts Scholarship on\u00a0<b>Thursday, Dec. 1 at 3:30 in Presser Hall room 112<\/b> for a discussion by\u00a0Dr. Peter Smucker on his current research.\u00a0The workshop is an open faculty forum to provide feedback on ongoing research. Feel free to attend all or part of the workshop.<\/p>\n<h3>Appalachian Folk Music and the Supernatural: Tracing Social Encounters in Kentucky Route Zero<\/h3>\n<h6><em>Dr. Peter Smucker<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>This paper draws connections between social alienation and supernatural encounters through the use of Appalachian folk music in video games, film, and television. My primary focus is music from Kentucky Route Zero (2013\u2013), a video game that builds on legends of Appalachian ghost stories. A common trope in Appalachian folk music deals with death (Crissman 1994)\u2014often in the form of \u201ccrossing a barrier\u201d\u2014 and typically delivers positive and religious messages of post- life experiences. Yet this music also highlights social removal and fear of the unknown. To better understand the multilayered musical meaning in Kentucky Route Zero, I demonstrate links between social and supernatural encounters in folk music through analyses of several scenes from film and television.<\/p>\n<p>I first show how Frank Hutchison\u2019s song \u201cHellbound Train\u201d is a paradigmatic \u201ccrossing over\u201d piece of folk music, which highlights supernatural attitudes towards death. Scenes from the films Deliverance (1970) and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) establish a negative visual stereotype of Appalachian peoples, yet particular musical underpinnings instead suggest positive social interactions. The final television episode of Quantum Leap (1993) takes place in a 1950s coalmining town, and musically demonstrates that many parts of Appalachia are historically and culturally diverse (Simon 2014). Through the use of Appalachian folk music in these scenes, I establish three primary intersections of sound and image: social acceptance\/removal; musical positivity\/negativity; and encounters between life and death. These intersections inform a nuanced understanding of the music in Kentucky Route Zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Workshop on Music and Creative Arts Scholarship on\u00a0Thursday, Dec. 1 at 3:30 in Presser Hall room 112 for a discussion by\u00a0Dr. Peter Smucker on his current research.\u00a0The workshop is an open faculty forum to provide feedback on ongoing research. Feel free to attend all or part of the workshop. 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