AMS/LoC Lecture: Recovering the Extraordinary Life and Songs of Carrie Jacobs-Bond – Christopher Reynolds

Montepelier Room, James Madison Memorial Building 101,1199 Independent Ave SE, Washington, DC, United States

Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1861-1946) was the most successful songwriter – male or female – in the first half of the 20th century. Her most popular songs sold millions of copies of sheet music and records and were sung around the world, translated into dozens of languages. Critics often thought of her music either as “semi-classical,” as […]

Singer Songwriter Traditions: Yesterday and Today with Allison Young

Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall Center for the Arts, Towson University, 7700 Osler Drive, Towson, MD, United States

Allison Young is composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist whose music is influenced by her research into early twentieth-century American popular song styles. Through her solo work and collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox, Young converses with the past even as she creates something entirely new. Join us at Towson University on January 31, 2025 to experience a wide […]

Re-Animating the Sound Archive

Schaffel Recital Hall, Broyhill Music Center, Appalachian State University 813 Rivers St., Boone, NC, United States

Over the past two decades, Brian Harnetty has located historical recordings that document spoken words and musical performance in archives across Appalachia and the Midwest, including the Berea Appalachian Sound Archives (Berea, Kentucky), the Little Cities of Black Diamonds Archive (Shawnee, Ohio), and the Thomas Merton Collection (Louisville, Kentucky). In this talk, Harnetty will discuss […]