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"Music of the South" Homecoming to Mark 25^th Anniversary of the Southern Studies MA Degree

To commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the Southern Studies MA program, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi is planning an event entitled "Music of the South: A Southern Studies Homecoming." On March 2 and 3, all Southern Studies students, alumni, staff, and faculty (and likely some close friends and family) are invited to convene for two days of music and discussion of music. People wanting to participate as musicians or discussants should contact Ted Ownby. 

This year, the Center faculty and staff decided to emphasize the Center’s musicians and its many people who have studied, written about, produced, and filmed music. Scholars can give papers, people who wrote theses on music can discuss them, and people who teach about music (or teach using music) or deal with music festivals, music tourism, documenting musicians, working as disc jockeys and in the recording industry, and doing all sorts of other things involving music can discuss their work in panels designed for the purpose.

The big event will be a Saturday night 25^th Anniversary concert at The Lyric Theatre on the Oxford Square. Emceed by Tyler Keith (MA 2011), that event, from 8 to midnight, will concentrate on people who are (or have been) professional musicians. The public will be invited, and we hope to see a large crowd of Center friends and alumni. 

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2012 BLUES SYMPOSIUM

May 18-19, 2012

Dominican University, River Forest, IL

Living Blues magazine partners once again with Dominican University to present Blues and the Spirit III, a symposium on the enduring legacy of African American music.  The event will take place May 18-19, 2012, at Dominican University, in River Forest, IL, in the near west suburbs of Chicago. The 2012 symposium continues the dialogue initiated at the last symposium in 2010 about racial appropriation and gender representations in the blues.  Plenaries and panels will feature an eclectic group of young scholars, prominent musicologists, writers, musicians and industry leaders, including Dr. Zandria Robinson, McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi.  Symposium participants will also be treated to two nights of first-class Chicago blues in well-known area clubs.

The registration fee is $60 and includes all keynotes and sessions on campus, two receptions, and bus transportation and cover charges for each evening's live blues entertainment. Reasonably priced and no-frills on-campus lodging options will be available.  For more information, program schedule and registration, please contact:

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Phone: (708) 524-6050

Website: www.dom.edu/blues