Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIV, no. 2 (Summer 1998)
Conferences
16-18 October 1998: For What It's Worth: Institutions and Popular Music/Institutionalizing Popular
Music, U.C.L.A. Much of the cultural capital affiliated with popular msuic predicates itself
upon notions of anti-authoritarian individualism, while at the same time, popular music and its analysis
are irreplacably connected to any number of institutions. For information contact Dr. Bernard
Gendron, Program Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201
(bgendron@csd.uvm.edu).
22-25 October 1998: The Third Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music, Moravian College and
Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The conference will celebrate the 100th anniversary of
the Bethlehem Bach Choir, founded by J. Fred. Wolle, and the 250th anniversary of the Single Brethrens'
House, current home of the Moravian College Music Department. For information contact Dr. Carol
Traupman-Carr, Co-chair, Bethlehem Conferences on Moravian Music, Moravian Collge Music Department,
1200 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018-6650 (610)-861-1686 (mecar01@moravian.edu).
22-25 October 1998: Society for Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The conference
theme is "Communities of Collaboration." For more information, contact SEM '98 Program Committee, Archives of
Traditional Music, Indiana University, Morrison Hall 117, Bloomington, IN 47405 (sem98@indiana.edu).
22-25 October 1998: College Music Society, Colorado Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The
College Music Society will hold its Forty-First Annual Meeting in conjuction with the 1998 National
Conference on Technology and Music Instruction of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction.
For more information, see http://www.music.org.
28 October 1998: Amy Beach and Her Times, at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.
The conference will focus on her colleagues and associates. Submit three copies of proposals for
papers or performances to William E. Ross, Special Collections, University Library, University of
New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, by 1 May 1998 (special deadline for Sonneck members).
29 October - 1 November 1998: American Musicological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, The Boston
Park Plaza Hotel & Tower.
6-7 Nov. 1998: World War I and the Twentieth Century, Kansas Newman College, Wichita, Kansas.
A conference designed to take a multidisciplinary approach to the impact of the Great War on the 20th
century. The keynote speaker will be Modris Eksteins of the University of Toronto, author of
The Rites of Spring. For more information contact Paula Savaglio (savagliop@ksnewman.
1-20 March 1999 (NEW DATES!) Music Library Association, The Regal Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.
For more information: www.musiclibraryassociation.org/wh_meet.htm.
4-7 March 1999: Early American Conference 1999. College of Charleston Conference Center, Charleston,
SC. Contact Sharon Harris, Dept. of English, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333, (402) 472-1857
(sharris@ujlinfo.un.edu.
Updated 8/31/98