[SOA] Reminder: new American Musicological Society/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum lecture series starts tonight!

[Jennie Thomas]

Just a reminder that tonight is our first lecture in the American Musicological Society/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lecture Series. The AMS is partnering with us to present two lectures per year by prominent scholars in the field of popular music studies. The AMS has partnered with only one other non-academic institution in the past-the Library of Congress.


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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
announces new lecture series
with the American Musicological Society

WHAT:                 Albin J. Zak III, Professor of Musicology at the State University of New York, Albany, will give a lecture entitled "'A Thoroughly Bad Record': Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' as Rock and Roll Manifesto," on Wednesday, October 5 at 7 p.m. in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Foster Theater.  This marks the debut of the American Musicological Society / Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum lecture series.

WHEN:                 Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:00pm

WHERE:               Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Foster Theater (4th Floor)


TO RSVP:             This event is FREE with a reservation.  Please email education at rockhall.org<mailto:education at rockhall.org> or call (216) 515-8426 to RSVP.



VIEW ONLINE:   Can't make it to Cleveland for this event?  No worries! This event will be live streamed on rockhall.com<http://rockhall.com>.  The stream will be available here<http://rockhall.com/event/AMS-lecture/>.

MORE INFO:
Zak's  talk will examine the implications of the market success of Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog,' which claimed the number-one spot on the Pop, Country, and R&B charts in the summer of 1956. The record was widely scorned by music industry veterans and high-pop aficionados, yet in its rude enthusiasm it represents an emphatic assertion of aesthetic principle at the dawn of rock and roll.

The AMS/RRHOFM Lecture Series will continue in Spring 2012 with a lecture by David Brackett (McGill University) entitled "Fox-Trots, Hillbillies, and the Classic Blues: Categorizing Popular Music in the 1920s."
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