Academic Recording Studio Proposal
My offices have now finally moved into the space that is to be the future academic recording studio. Even before I moved in, the University had a representative from the construction firm on campus to appraise the room situation. Since then I have met with this individual as well as my Division Chair and Dean and presented a proposal for the space. There was a brief discussion about
… Read more...ITA Back Issue PDFs
A few years ago I scanned almost all of the ITA Journals and Newsletters up to the year 2004 into searchable PDFs for my own personal use. Dr. Randy Kohlenberg and myself offer those PDFs to the ITA who at that time had no interest in electronic versions. With the continued moving of back issues from UNCG to the ITA Archives, the subject was once again broached on behalf of the ITA by Magnus
… Read more...Site Updates Redux
Development on this site will hopefully get started over the next few days. It has been a busy summer of changes both at Bethel University and in our family lives as we prepare for the birth of out third son. Needless to say this site has taken the brunt of the neglect. Now that the semester is almost here I am quickly trying to tie up a number of projects, and updating this site is one of those
… Read more...Division of Music
Updates have been slow to my site due to a number of events this summer. One of those events, I am happy to announce, was the complete separation of the Division of Music from Renaissance. There is going to be a period of adjustment, but overall I believe this to be a VGT (Very Good Thing) for the Division. Because of this change, some of the faculty (like myself) have had to take on more academic
… Read more...Bibliography
Books Barker, Danny. Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville. Alyn Shipton, ed. New York: Cassell, 1998. Bissonnette, Bill. The Jazz Crusade: The Inside story of the Great New Orleans Jazz Revival of the 1960s. Bridgeport, CT: Special Request Books & Recordings Division, 1992. Collier, James Lincoln. Jazz The American Theme Song. New York: Oxford University Press,
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