Program

Research Programs: Conferences

Period of Performance

10/1/1977 - 3/31/1978

Funding Totals

$24,582.00 (approved)
$24,582.00 (awarded)


A Conference on The Phonograph and Our Musical Life

FAIN: RX-10122-77

CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY 11210-2850)
H. Wiley Hitchcock (Project Director: October 1977 to present)

To present a conference consisting of scholarly papers and colloquia exploring the impact of the phonograph and subsequent developments in audio technology have had on the musical community—audiences, composers, performers, scholars and critics, and other media (from radio to hotel elevators). All sessions will be taped; it is hoped that a publishable manuscript and possibly one or more recordings will 'result.