The Center for Popular Music and the Middle Tennessee Popular Music Studies Group present

Music at Mid-Week:
A multi-disciplinary series of informal lectures 
and discussions on popular music topics.

Spring Semester 2002 - Wednesdays, 12:30-1:15 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room, Bragg MassCommunications 
Building (COMM 241) [except April 3 session]

Full text or abstract available for linked titles.

January 23 Stephen Shearon (Music)
Popular Music Studies: A Musicologist's Perspective
  March 13 Paul Wells (CPM)
The Early Music Business in Tennessee
January 30 Sonya Lawson (Music)
Strings in Jazz
March 20 Bruce Nemerov (CPM)
& Mary Nichols (Digital Media Communications)
Documenting Music in a West Tennessee Community
February 6 Dan Pfeifer 
(Recording Industry)
Communication Aspects of Production
March 27 March 27 - no program/MTSU Spring Break
February 13 Paul Fischer 
(Recording Industry)
Popular Music and Public Policy
April 3 Timothy H. Breen (Strickland Visiting Scholar, History)
Writing an Opera about Slavery
[Peck Hall 222]
February 20 Kristine McCusker (History)
Authenticating America: Lily May Ledford and the King of England
April 10 John Dougan (Rec. Industry)
Objects of Desire: Canon Formation and Blues Record Collecting
February 27 Michael Dunne (English)
Dance as a Narrative Agent in Hollywood Musicals
April 17 Mike Alleyne (Rec. Industry)
Caribbean Music and the American Mainstream
March 6 Charles Wolfe (English)
The Bristol Syndrome: Early Field Recordings of Country Music
All talks will be held in the Dean's Conference Room of the Bragg Mass Communication Building (COMM 241), with the exception of April 3, which will be in Peck Hall 222.
This is a "brown-bag" series--bring your lunch and join us for some stimulating presentations and discussion sessions!