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IASPM-US members present new research and ideas
at our annual conference. Held in a different U.S. city each year,
these meetings also feature small sightseeing tours, concerts,
and other other activities from the host city.
University of Iowa
April 25-27, 2008
Iowa City, IA
Preliminary
Program (PDF - updated 4/22/08)
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Conference
Registration
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Conference Activities
Gospel brunch, Amana Colonies tour information, additional
weekend doings
Conference Accommodations & Travel Info
Where to stay, how to get there, what's nearby
Call For
Papers
Local Arrangements Committee
Co-Chairs: Venise
Berry (School of Journalism), Kembrew McLeod (Department of Communication
Studies), T.M. Scruggs (Department of Music), Deborah Whaley (American
Studies), and Don Mcleese (Journalism) University of Iowa.
2009: San Diego, CA - Local Arrangements Chair:
David Borgo, UC San Diego
2010: New Orleans, LA - Local Arrangements Chair: Connie Atkinson, University of New Orleans
Boundaries, Blockades, and Bridges: Annual
Conference 2007
A joint conference with IASPM Canada, Northeastern University
Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering: Annual
Conference 2006
Middle Tennessee State University
IASPM-US Annual Conference, 2005
Cancelled for shift to Spring schedule (more
info)
IASPM-US
Annual Conference, 2004
University of Virginia
Broadening
the Playlists: Annual Conference, 2003
Popular Musics in Dialogue
UCLA
IASPM-US
at 20: Annual Conference, 2002
Celebrating the Roots and Fruits of Popular Music Studies
(Cleveland, in association with the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum)
IASPM-US:
Annual Conference, 2001
Iowa City, IA
Cancelled because of the Sept. 11th tragedy
(Online mini-conference held January 2002)
Musical
Intersections, 2000
Toronto, Canada
Don't
Stop Till You Get Enough: Annual Conference, 1999
Middle Tennessee State University
IASPM-US: Annual Conference, 1998 (Program
draft)
UCLA
IASPM-US: Annual Conference, 1997
Pittsburgh, PA
Every
two years the various chapters of the International
Association for the Study of Popular Music gather
somewhere in the world for a large conference. Find
information regarding these meetings of the International Association here.
Conference announcements from related academic groups are also
available below.
IASPM 2007
Mexico City, Mexico
IASPM
2005
Rome, Italy
IASPM
2003
Montreal, Canada
IASPM
2001
Turku, Finland
Please note that announcements are posted
as a service to our members. IASPM-US is not responsible for any
changes made by the conference organizers.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University
invites proposals for presentations in:
“FARTHER ALONG”
A Conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition
4-5
April 2008
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Southern gospel convention singing is an amateur American musical
tradition in which practitioners train at singing schools and gather
at
monthly and annual singings to sing and play from upright, or octavo,
"new books" containing southern gospel songs in seven-shape
notation.
Historically it follows the four-shape tradition (Southern Harmony,
Sacred Harp, etc.) and has been led primarily by publishers such
as
Ruebush-Kieffer, Anthony J. Showalter, James D. Vaughan, Stamps-Baxter,
Hartford, and others. These publishers also sponsored the largest
and
best-known singing schools from the 1870s through the early 1960s.
Emphasizing new songs in the gospel style, as opposed to the four-shape
tradition's more conservative bent, the southern gospel convention
tradition also embraces the use of instruments, most particularly
piano,
to accompany the singers. In addition, this amateur tradition and
the
publishing and educational industry that accompanies it have been
the
fertile ground from which has come many well-known songs, and from
which
has emerged the world of professional southern gospel.
Southern gospel convention singing, in turn, is part of a broader
musical phenomenon stemming from the Protestant Reformation and
Americans' responses to it: the recreational and congregational
group
singing of sacred music. This phenomenon has played a central role
in
the history of Protestant music-making in the United States of
America,
from the unison and heterophonic psalm-singing of the colonial
era
through the part-music of the nineteenth century to the unison
and
homophonic choruses of modern praise-and-worship music. After almost
a
century of scholarship devoted to this broader musical phenomenon,
the
southern gospel convention-singing tradition remains little understood
by the larger scholarly community--an anomaly, given its popularity.
"Farther Along": A Conference
on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing
Tradition is intended to help address this oversight. We expect
the
conference to include sessions devoted to:
- scholarly presentation
- practitioners’ perspectives:
i.e., the views of today’s
publishers,
singing-school teachers, songwriters, singers, and pianists
- singing
We encourage proposals for papers and presentations
on all aspects of
the convention-singing tradition and related activities. Topics
may
include, but are not limited to, studies of:
- composers and lyricists
- publishers
- geographical distribution of convention
singing
- community traditions
- singing schools
- pianists
- songs and songwriting
- performance styles
- crossover with bluegrass
and country gospel
- relationship to professional southern gospel
- inter-cultural
exchange
- mass media
- the business of gospel music
Proposals should include an abstract of 250-300
words and an indication of audio-visual needs. Electronic submissions
are strongly encouraged, but hardcopy submissions will be accepted.
SUBMISSION
DEADLINE: October
1, 2007
Submit proposals to:
Kym Stricklin
Center for Popular Music
Box 41
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 31732
e-mail:
fax: 615.898.5829
Those who do not wish to submit proposals but who want to keep
abreast
of conference news may join the conference mailing list by sending
contact information to Kym Stricklin.
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