[Student Achievements] Conference Acceptances!

Congrats to Tim Storhoff for his paper acceptance at “Cultural Counterpoints: Examining the MusicalInteractions between the U.S. and Latin America“, held at the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University from October 19-23!

Congrats to Janine Tiffe and David Knapp for their paper acceptances at the 14th Annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Conference, which will be held in Grenada from November 3-5!

Also – congrats to all the FSU musicology students who presented at this weekends’ Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium: Sara Brown, Matt DelCiampo, Christian Savage, Megan MacDonald, Catherine Williams, Lyndsey Macchiarella, John MacInnis, & Danielle Adomaitis.  Also, thank you to Tim Storhoff, our SGMRS 2011 conference organizer!

 

5th Annual Sopchoppy Intertribal Powwow

This may interest to some of our musicologists!

Sopchoppy City Park – 252 Park Ave, Sopchoppy, FL

September 23-25

This event is a traditional Native American gathering hosted by the Village of the Descendants , a Muskogee Creek village east of the Mississippi. Email: powwow@descendantsvillage.com for more information.

FRI-SAT 10:00am-8:00pm

SUN 9:00am-5:00pm

FREE ADMISSION

**A carpool will be leaving on Saturday morning from the College    of Music. 

Visit this link for a map: http://www.floridafairsandfestivals.com/235667-the-sopchoppy-intertribal-pow-wow-sopchoppy-florida-september-2011.html

[Call for Papers] AMS Southern Chapter Meeting

For those who might not be on the AMS-Southern chapter mailing list yet, the call for papers for our meeting in February has just gone out! From the newsletter:

To submit a proposal for the chapter meeting, send an abstract as an email attachment in Microsoft Word format (.doc extension) to the Abstracts Editor, Dr. Zoë Lang: zlang@arts.usf.edu. The Abstracts Editor will remove the names from the proposals and submit them anonymously to the program committee. Submissions must be received by Monday, November 7, 2011, 6 p.m (EST). Abstracts should be double-spaced, no longer than 500 words, and they should indicate all equipment needs; if a piano keyboard is needed, this should be stated explicitly. Papers as read should not exceed 20 minutes.