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BLAIR VANDERBILTUNIVERSITY Chinese drums await the fall concert season at Blair See pull-out, pages 10 & 11 Musicology scholars on a roll page 3 F A L L 2 0 0 8 Cover photo by John Russell The BLAIR QUARTER NOTE, the newsletter Global Music Archive of the Blair School of Music, is published twice a year in cooperation with Development and Alumni Relations Communications for alumni, current now “live” on the Internet students and other friends of the school. The BLAIR QUARTER NOTE, Volume 32, he Global Music Archive recent- ister of culture and the director of the Number 2, Fall 2008 ly launched its first database, the National Theatre in Uganda in hopes of © 2008 by Vanderbilt University. Department All rights reserved. T Digital Collection of East creating a partnership with Makerere African Recordings, consisting of over University that would provide training Editor, Bonnie Arant Ertelt Art Director, Donna DeVore Pritchett 2,000 discrete musical performances for the project, so that the staff and fac- The musicology department at Blair is a place where scholars flourish Designer, Chris Collins recorded by Centurio Balikoowa, a ulty there can make local contributions JOHN RUSSELL Contributors, Jim Patterson, Kami Rice, musician from Uganda. Co-curators, t would seem that to be a musicolo- and Holling Smith-Borne Holling Smith-Borne, director of the gist, one must be a scholarly jack- Associate Dean for Development and Wilson Music Library, and Gregory F. of-all-trades,a proverbial “Renaissance” Alimni Relations, Virginia Payne RenaissanceI Director of External Affairs, Cindy Steine Barz, associate professor of musicology man or woman, for the discipline takes (ethnomusicology) at Blair, are pleased its direction from multiple viewpoints Precollege, adult and undergraduate alumni are encouraged to send their to provide free access to this digital and employs multiple modes of inquiry. professional or personal news to: library of field recordings from Uganda, Sociology,art history,literary studies, aes- The BLAIR QUARTER NOTE completed after a peer-review process thetics, psychology—not to mention 2400 Blakemore Avenue that included other archivists, librarians musical performance—all inform what Nashville, TN 37212-3499 and curators from around the world. the Grove Music Dictionary defines as Or by e-mail to: The sound recordings, which vary in the “scholarly study of music.” [email protected] length from five minutes to over an The Blair School is fortunate to have Undergraduate alumni news now hour, can be streamed directly to a lis- many “scholars of music” who are con- appears in both Vanderbilt Magazine’s tributing to various specialties within class notes section and in The BLAIR tener’s computer using the RealPlayer QUARTER NOTE. Any news sent by application. the discipline. From how music informs undergraduate alumni is forwarded to AIDS education in east Africa to stud- Vanderbilt Magazine. Smith-Borne visited Uganda for two weeks this summer to collaborate with ies of how music was taught during Visit us on the Web at Balikoowa, the chief recordist for the medieval times, from the popular music www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/ archive, while continuing to collect field of the barrios of Los Angeles to the com- Vanderbilt University is committed recordings and witnessing the recording plete works of Carl Philipp Emanuel to principles of equal opportunity Bach—Blair’s musicologists are covering and affirmative action. process first-hand. “We traveled to rural parts of Uganda A local artist in Uganda listens to a recording of his new territory and contributing to intel- music. Most artists there had never heard them- lectual history at an astonishing rate where musicians welcomed us and selves on a recording, so time was spent allowing shared their music and dance. The them to listen to their music. through their scholarship and recordings. STEVE GREEN recording session would start early in the morning with one ensemble, then the to the archive without first sending the Greg Barz, associate professor of musi- word would get passed on to other musi- materials to Blair. cology (ethnomusicology), is known cians in the community, and several In late July, Steven Nordstrom, music for his studies of how music contributes ensembles would want us to record cataloger for the Wilson Music Library to education and healing, particularly them. It was amazing how quickly the and metadata specialist for the archive, in regard to HIV/AIDS in Africa. His recording session became a community gave a presentation to the International CD Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Heal- Music, Medicine, and Culture: Medical Joy Calico, associate professor of musi- event. Most performances took place Association of Music Libraries in Naples, ing and HIV/AIDS in Uganda, released Ethnomusicology and Global Perspectives cology, has been awarded numerous outdoors where children would gather Italy, getting the word out to librarians last year through Smithsonian Folk- on Health and Healing, associate editor grants and fellowships for her research around us to hear the music and then and archivists worldwide that this is a ways, was nominated for a Grammy (B. Koen, editor) (NY: Oxford Univer- focusing on music and politics in for- ‘take over’ the instruments once the model for collecting and providing access Award this winter in the Best Tradi- sity Press, 2008); Shadows in the Field: mer Soviet-bloc countries, particularly adults had finished.” to indigenous music. tional World Music Album category. New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Eth- the former German Democratic Repub- During the visit, Smith-Borne met His most recently produced CD, God nomusicology, 2nd Edition, co-editor lic. An NEH summer stipend helped with faculty and administrators at To learn more, go to www. globalmusic- in Music City, accompanied a class with T. Cooley. (NY: Oxford Univer- support research for her most recently Dean Mark Wait Makerere University as well as the min- archive.org. offered through the transinstitutional sity Press, 2008); and Singing for Life: published book, Brecht at the Opera, Center for the Study of Religion and Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NY: released in August by the University of Culture. Recent publications include: Routledge, 2006). California (Berkeley) Press as volume F a l l 2 0 0 8 3 2 BLAIR Quarter Note 9 in the California Studies in Twentieth many, forthcoming from University of well. He has had encyclopedia articles, Century Music series. She also was the Toronto Press, looks at the control women chapters and reviews in The Cambridge So Simple, Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the Amer- monastics had over their own intellectual Companion to the Musical, The Encyclo- ican Academy in Berlin, in support of life, identifying over 400 women scribes pedia of the Midwest (forthcoming), The the Brecht book. Two external fellow- and 38 women’s scriptoria. She has two Sondheim Review and The Kurt Weill ships are supporting her current book other books coming in 2009 for which Newsletter, and he is currently writing project, Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s she is co-editor: Reading and Writing the South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten for Oxford Yet So Complex ‘Survivor from Warsaw’ in Postwar Europe Pedagogy of the Past: Studies in Musical University Press (2009). Prof. Loven- (also for the University of California Press): Learning in the Early Modern Era (with sheimer is the 2008 winner of the Ellen Blair precollege student Sarah Elizabeth Musgrave communicates an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residen- Susan Weiss of Peabody Conservatory and Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in through music with those for whom communication is a challenge tial Fellowship for which she will be a Russell E. Murray of the University of Classroom Teaching at Vanderbilt, one fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Delaware, Indiana University Press) and of only two faculty teaching awards given By Kami Rice Advanced Study at Harvard in 2009-10 Music, Dance and Society: Medieval and each year at Vanderbilt. and a Howard Fellowship from the George Renaissance Studies in Memory of Ingrid A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Founda- G.Brainard (with Ann Buckley of National Melanie Lowe, associate professor of recollege student and Myra Jack- instrument she’s been studying since she G.R. Davis, will attend Belmont Uni- tion for summer research in 2008-09. University of Ireland—Maynooth, Medieval musicology and chair of Musicology son Blair Scholar Sarah Elizabeth was six.“It’s like a blank palette, and I versity on a Presidential Scholarship.The Institute Publications). and Ethnomusicology, has contributed PMusgrave was introduced to autism can do anything I want with it.The dul- most prestigious scholarship Belmont Dale Cockrell, professor of musicology, articles and reviews to numerous journals when her young cousin was diagnosed cimer has a level of simplicity that allows offers, this award covers tuition, room and focuses on American musical idioms. He Douglas Lee, professor of musicology, and books, including the Journal of Musi- with the disorder.As a sophomore, Mus- anyone to play it, yet it can also be really board, books and fees.Accepted into both has written extensively on blackface min- emeritus, retired from teaching a number cology,American Music, Popular Music and grave, who performs and records as “Sarah complex.” the songwriting and honors programs, she strels and his book Demons of Disorder: of years ago, but his research on 18th cen- Society, Beethoven Forum, The Cambridge Elizabeth,” held one of her first full-length Musgrave’s work with the dulcimer will design her own major to incorporate Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World tury and modern orchestral music has Companion to Haydn (Cambridge Uni- dulcimer concerts to benefit the Autism choir has served as her senior project at performance, songwriting and music busi- (Cambridge University Press,1997) received continued. Most specifically,his work has versity Press, 2004), and Popular Music Society of Middle Tennessee.