Call For Papers: Black Conductors & Concert Music

AfriClassical has received a clarification regarding the Encyclopedia of Black Music, which is seeking an author for the section on Black Conductors & Concert Music:

Thanks for posting the call for articles for the black music encyclopedia. Horace Maxile, now on our staff, is an editor, but this encyclopedia (unlike the IDBC) is not a CBMR publication.

Suzanne Flandreau,Head Librarian and Archivist,Center for Black Music Research Columbia College Chicago.

[Editor's Note: The IDBC is The International Dictionary of Black Composers, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., Editor (1999)]


Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of African American Music

Black Conductors & Concert Music

The Center for Black Music Research, www.cbmr.org, announces the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American Music is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2008. The editors and advisory board seek writers for remaining unassigned entries, including: Black Conductors & Performers of Concert Music.

A special feature of this encyclopedia will be entries that focus on geographic centers of African American Music. Among the remaining entries in this category are: Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York, and Chicago.

Deadline for submissions is January 20, 2008. The deadline is firm, so please be confident that you can complete assigned entries by that date.

If you are interested in writing for this important reference, please send a brief C.V. (2-page maximum) along with your preferred e-mail, affiliation, and postal address to:

editors@eoaam.org

For more detailed information and the complete list of entries visit http://www.eoaam.org

EDITORS:

Emmett G. Price III, Ph.D.

Northeastern University

Tammy L. Kernodle, Ph.D.

Miami University

Horace J. Maxile, Jr., Ph.D.

Center for Black Music Research

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