Report on “John Williams, dernier des symphonistes?”

Université d’Évry, December 7–9, 2022

Authors

  • Conor Power Maynooth University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.25962

Keywords:

Conference Report, John Williams, Dernier des symphonistes, Film music, academic musicology, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Leitmotif, Home Alone, E.T., A.I.

Author Biography

  • Conor Power, Maynooth University

    Conor Power is a Teaching Fellow in Music Theory and Performance at the School of Music in University College Dublin. His PhD thesis, completed at Maynooth University, focused on John Williams’s American film scores, particularly their stylistic heritage and ideological resonances. He has published further articles on the music of Williams with Émergences and Cuadernos de Investigación Musical. Conor is also interested in public musicology, and has been interviewed by The Journal and the BBC, written for RTÉ Brainstorm, and lectured at the Irish Film Institute.

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Power, Conor. 2022. Swashbucklers and femme fatales: Gender coding in John Williams’s score to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Cuadernos de Investigación Musical 15: 91-104.

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Published

2024-10-16

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How to Cite

Power, C. (2024). Report on “John Williams, dernier des symphonistes?”: Université d’Évry, December 7–9, 2022. Journal of Film Music. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.25962