Thought this would be of interest. NB: the Ford Foundation
has email!
 
--Robbin
 
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:25:00 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fingerson, Linda" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW:NEH Summer Seminar on American Song & Culture in 19th century
 
                              NEH Summer Seminar
     AMERICAN SONG AND AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
 
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:[log in to unmask]
     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
 
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