Perspectives on Global Pop Garland Publishing announces a new book series consisting of scholarly essay collections exploring the gloval traffic in musical sounds that is reconfiguring the world's sonic map. Garland is currently soliciting manuscripts, proposals, ideas, and volume editors for books in the series. We encourage organizers of thematically-focused symposia, conferences, or panels to consider editing volumes that issue from such scholarly gatherings. Like the Gutenberg Project for literature in English and the Miguel de Cervantes for Spanish literature, the Petrucci Project hopes to enlist the aid of individuals and institutions for the sanning or photographing of printed material, and for data entry for manuscripts to fragile for lending or photocopying. The project has begun with nineteenth-century Romantic composers from the United States, France, Sweden, and Spain, where there are literally hundreds of neglected compositions.
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For more information, call 757.221.1288. Eligible applicants are college seniors and recent graduates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The application deadline is 21 December 1999. Members in the News Karen Ahlquist has been elected chair of the AMS Capital Chapter and welcomes program ideas and proposals from SAM members. An exhibit of rare photos, manuscripts, unpublished recordings from the Eastman Audio Archive, and other Bennettiana is on display for several months in Eastman's Sibley Music Library.