[AMS-announce] CONF: Music Theory Southeast / AMS South Central / SEM Southeast and Caribbean, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, March 16-17 2007

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The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia will host
the joint annual meetings of three regional music societies, March
16-17, 2007. Music Theory Southeast (MTSE), the American Musicological
Society South Central Chapter (AMSSCC), and the Society for
Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSECC) will meet
together for the first time. The two-day conference will feature talks
and research presentations from the three branches of academic musical
inquiry. The final event on Saturday will be a keynote address by
Lawrence Zbikowski, a theorist on the faculty of the University of
Chicago whose recent scholarship embraces all three of these branches.

This "Mega-Regional" conference represents the first time that the
regional societies are meeting together and suggests a renewed interest
in interdisciplinary scholarship and musical inquiry. Several
presentations at the conference will pay homage to Athens' own musical
culture, with papers from all three societies that focus on topics
ranging from Southern musical traditions to the B-52's and the Drive-By
Truckers.