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Ann Powers: Traveling on the Path of Joni Mitchell

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 4 PM

State Farm Room (Business and Aerospace Building 102)

The Center for Popular Music welcomes award-winning NPR Music critic Ann Powers to discuss her new book on Joni Mitchell with CPM Director (and longtime Mitchell fan) Dr. Greg Reish.

In the decade she has worked with NPR, Powers has written extensively on music and culture, appeared regularly on the All Songs Considered podcast, and news shows including All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Her previous books include a memoir, Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (2000), Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music (2017), and Piece by Piece (2005) with Tori Amos.

The event is FREE and open to the campus community and the public. It will be live streamed via the Center for Popular Music Facebook page. You can RSVP for the event at this link.

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The String Band Summit

April 4–6, 2024

After two successful years at ETSU, the String Band Summit is coming to MTSU for its third year, hosted by the Center for Popular Music in collaboration with MTSU's Center for Chinese Music and Culture. The SBS is a gathering of musicians, scholars, students, and others interested in exploring the global phenomenon of string band music and sharing knowledge and cultural traditions. The event will feature concerts, workshops, panel discussions, scholarly presentations, and more!

Registration, lodging, and other information at this link: String Band Summit 2024

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The Center for Popular Music is pleased to announce the inaugural cycle of the Macon-Doubler Travel Grant Program, with generous funding from the Macon-Doubler Fellowship. The grant program will provide $1,000 to support travel by an eligible researcher to visit the Center for Popular Music on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to conduct original research using the Center’s Uncle Dave Macon Collection, Uncle Dave Macon Days Collection, and any related materials in the Center’s archival holdings.

Application deadline: March 1, 2024 (extension)

More information, including application guidelines, at this link: Macon-Doubler Travel Grant

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Lydia Lunch

2022 Recipient of the CPM Fellows Award

We are proud to announce that this year's recipient of the CPM Fellows Award is the legendary and iconic performing artist Lydia Lunch. The CPM Fellows Award is our most distinguished and prestigious award.  For more information, click below for the MTSU News story about these exciting events.

                        

MTSU’s new Popular Music Fellow Lunch ‘forged her own path, powerfully’

 

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