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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 17:38:02 -0600
From: H-NET <CAMPBELLD@APSU.BITNET>
Subject: neh summer seminar: 19c US songs; for profs & indept scholars
AMERICAN SONG AND AMERICAN CULTURE
IN THE 19TH CENTURY
NEH Summer Seminar
College teachers and independent scholars are invited to
apply to participate in this 7-week seminar in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Dates: June 20 to August 5, 1994
Location: Peabody Conservatory of Music
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland
Directors: John Spitzer and Ronald G. Walters
Stipend: $3,600
Application Deadline: March 1, 1994
The seminar will study 19th-century American song as a
manifestation of popular culture. Songs will be examined in
the contexts of political and social history, the history of the
entertainment industry, and 20th-century theories of popular
culture. Participants will work with primary sources: sheet
music in the collections of the Baltimore-Washington area.
The seminar aims to attract teachers and scholars from
diverse fields: historians, musicologists, librarians,
folklorists, and others. It is designed for teachers at 4-year
colleges, independent scholars, persons in non-academic
employment, and university teachers in departments that do
not offer a Ph.D. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or
foreign nationals who have resided in the U.S. for at least
3 years immediately preceding the application deadline.
For more information and/or application materials, respond
via one of the routes below. Include your current mailing
address, so we can send you an application.
E-mail:amsong@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Write: John Spitzer, Peabody Conservatory, One E. Mt.
Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, 21202
Call: 410-659-8158
Fax: 410-685-0657
John Spitzer and Ron Walters