ELEVENTH ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE SCHOLAR'S CONFERENCE

MUSIC AND THE SOUTHERN TRADITIONS

The Jefferson Foundation, University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

March 7-10, 2013

 

Thursday, March 7

(Note: All lectures and supper Thursday and Saturday are in The Jefferson Foundation. Cavalier Inn has continental breakfast. Campus buses leave regularly from the Cavalier Inn to the Jefferson Foundation, where there are a number of eating places a short walk away.)

4:30-6:00         Registration and Conviviality

6:00-7:00         Supper

7:00-8:30         "Music, Nature and Society: The Agrarian Principle and Musical Form," Thomas Sheeley

Friday, March 8

9:00-10:00       "The Place of Rural Britain in the Making of Southern Music," Alan Harrelson

10:30-11:30     "Singing Billy Walker and the 'Sacred Harp' Tradition," James Kibler

12:00-             Dinner (on your own, and optional tour of Jefferson's 'lawn' at the University)

3:00-4:00        Singing Billy Walker's  'Amazing Grace' and Its Legacy," James Kibler

4:30-5:30       "The Southern Musical Paradigm and the Legacy of Banjo and Fiddle," Thomas Minsel

5:30-6:30        Round Table Discussion

6:30-8:30        Supper (on your own)

8:30-              Music and Conviviality

Saturday, March 9

9:00-10:00      "Southern Music as Southern Tradition," Alan Harrelson

10:30-11:30     "The Southern Musical Tradition, Still With Us--Inherited and Preserved Through the Generations," Kirk Sutphin

12:00-              Dinner (on your own)

2:00-3:00         "Southern Music on Record: A Survey of 'Country & Western' in the 20^th Century," Joseph Stromberg

3:30-4:30         "From Where the Grip is the Stoutest: Bruce Springsteen's Southern Sensibility," Gregory Butler

5:00-6:00         Round Table Discussion

6:00-7:00         Supper

7:00-8:30         "Federalism and the Flowering of Art and Music in the South," Carey Roberts