Department of Music

The University of Virginia’s Departments of American Studies, Music, and Media Studies invite you to a roundtable discussion on the present, pasts and futures of Popular Music Studies, and the ongoing role of popular music as an object of inquiry both within and outside the academy more generally. The event will feature esteemed guests Gayle Wald, professor of English at George Washington University and author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television (Duke University Press, 2015), and Eric Weisbard, professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Professors Wald and Weisbard will be joined by UVA professors Karl Hagstrom Miller (Music) and Jack Hamilton (American Studies and Media Studies) for a conversation moderated by Grace Hale (professor of History and Commonwealth Chair of American Studies). Please join us for a lively, free-flowing and appropriately tuneful conversation.

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