Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXV, no. 1 (Spring 1999)
Conferences
28 April-2 May 1999. Ellington 99. Washington Marriot Hotel, 1221 22nd Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. The theme of the 1999 conference will be Ellington's mother's words
"Edward, you are blessed," with an emphasis on Ellington as a renaissance man in Amerian culture:
composer, arranger, lyricist, orchestra leader, pianist, visual artist, dramatist, and philosopher.
For more information contact "Ellington 99," P.O. Box 42504, Washington, D.C. 20014-9998.
7-10 July 1999. Feminist Theory and Music 5. St. Mark's on Old Marylebone Road, London,
England. In conjunction with the Eleventh International Congress on Women in Music sponsored by
The International Alliance for Women in Music. For more information contact Fred Maus, Secretary,
Program Committee, FTM5, Department of Music, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903,
f-t-m52virginia.edu.
30 September-2 October 1999. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough: Consuming Popular Music: The 1999
National Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, United States
Branch (IASPM/US). Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro, Tennesse. The 1999
IASPM/US conference welcomes papers on the cultural roles of music and musicians; the means by which
music gets to its audiences; and the ways in which music is interpreted and used by listeners in a variety
of contexts. Within this broad frame, the conference will focus especially on consumption practices.
In the study of popular music, attention is sometimes focused on producers at the expense of consumers:
we still understand and investigate very little who it is who listens to popular music, how they hear
it, and how that music affects their lives. In addition, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary
examinations on a large variety of topics related to popular music. Deadline for proposals: 15 May
1999. Please send all proposals to (submissions by e-mail are strongly encouraged): Thomas Swiss, Chair,
Program Committee, 1514 Buresh Ave., Iowa City, IA 52245, thomas.swiss@drake.edu. For
more info, contact Paul Fischer, Dept. of Recording Industry, Box 21, Middle Tennessee State University,
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132. (615) 898-5470, pfischer@frank.mtsu.edu.
14-17 October 1999. Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the College Music Society: Hyatt Regency
Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Held in conjunction with the 1999 National Conference of the Association for
Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI). For more information see www.music.org.
4-7 November 1999: American Musicological Society. Kansas City, Missouri, The Hyatt Regency
Crown Center.
18-21 November 1999. Society for Ethnomusicology. University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Local
arrangements contact: Stephen Slawek; Local Arrangements Chair, School of Music, Univesity of
Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; (512) 471-0671, slawek@mail.utexas.edu.
Program contact: Tom Turino, School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1114 W. Nevada
St., Urbana, Illinois (217) 244-2681, t-turino@uiuc.edu.
5 December 1999. Conference on the Music of Amy Beach. Mannes College of Muisc. The conference
will coordinate efforts of musicologist, music theorists, and performers in exploring specific works
by Beach. Each session will consist of papers devoted to analytic, stylistic, and contextual
explorations of a single composition of Beach's, alongwith a performance of the composition discussed.
Those interested should submit a preliminary proposal by 15 March 1998. For furthur information,
please contact Adrienne Block and Poundie Burstein at AMYBEACH@aol.com.
1-5 November 2000. Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections. Queries about joing session proposals
can be directed to Katherine Preston, Program Chair of the SAM porton of the Toronto 2000
conference and SAM representative on the Steering Committee. Preston's email address is
kkpres@facstaff.wm.edu; other contact information
is in the Society directory.
Updated 6/01/99