Sunday, July 2

• 10:00PM "Hollywood Rocks the Movies"
• 12:30 AM/EST "Rock Around the Clock"
• 2:00 AM/EST "Don't Knock the Rock"
• 3:30 AM/EST "Rock, Rock Rock"
• 5:00 AM/EST "Shake, Rattle and Rock"

Monday, July 3

• 6:15 AM "The Girl Can't Help It"
• 8:00 AM "Jamboree"
• 9:30 AM "Mr. Rock and Roll"
• 11:00 AM "King Creole"
• 1:00 PM "Because They're Young"
• 2:45 PM "Twist Around the Clock"
• 4:15 PM "G.I. Blues"
• 6:00 PM "Bye, Bye Birdie"
• 8:00/11:00 PM *"Hollywood Rocks the Movies"
• 10:30 PM *"The Lost Beach Boys Concert"
• 1:30 AM "Beach Party"
• 3:15 AM "Pop Gear" (A.K.A Go-Go Mania)
• 4:30 AM "Having a Wild Weekend"

Tuesday, July 4

• 6:15 AM/EST "The Girl Can't Help It"
• 7:45 AM/EST "Head"
• 9:15 AM/EST "The Jimmy Hendrix Experience"
• 10:00AM/6:30PM/EST "Monterey Pop"
• 11:30 AM/EST *"Hollywood Rocks the Movies"
• 2:00 PM/EST "Pop Gear (A.K.A Go-Go Mania)"
• 3:15 PM/EST "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
• 5:00 PM/EST "Head"
• 8:00PM/ 1:45AM/EST "Tommy"
• 10:00 PM/EST "Woodstock" (TV version)
• 1:45 AM/EST "Tommy"
• 3:45 AM/EST "Woodstock" (theatrical release)

Wednesday July 5

• 7:45 AM/EST "Let the Good Times Roll"

Key findings in the report demonstrate the following:

MP3 is a major new phenomenon in the university population sampled: 69% of all students surveyed say they download MP3s; of these, 68% use Napster. Seventy percent of MP3 users say they learned about MP3 technology through close social networks of family and/or friends.

• Unsurprisingly, there is a strong correlation between MP3 usage and access to faster Internet connections.
• MP3 usage among students has not significantly reduced their CD consumption patterns. Most students (63%) who download MP3s say they are still buying the same number of CDs; 10% of MP3 users say they are buying more CDs. What's more, 39% of students who download MP3s say that after listening to recorded music in MP3 format, they often buy CDs containing that music. Students also rated CDs higher than MP3s with respect to sound quality.
• Sharing music files is a popular activity, but 68% of students sampled who download MP3s say they have never converted CD music to MP3 format; 70% have never uploaded MP3s to the Internet.
• Thirty-three percent of students interviewed say their opinion of Metallica has worsened since the lawsuit.
• Fifty-four percent of students surveyed disagree with USC's ban on Napster downloads.
• Sixty-nine percent of students surveyed agree that copyright holders should be paid for downloaded MP3s.
• Seventy-six percent of respondents say that society is better off with new technologies such as MP3.

The full report, which provides data on the attitudes, characteristics, and practices of this MP3 user community can be found at the Lear Center's Web site: 

http://www.entertainment.usc.edu/publications/mp3.pdf

Since October (1999), scholars, journalists and amateurs, interesting in Brazilian Popular Music (MPB), have another research tool in the World Wide Web. It's so-called 

"Projeto Alta Fidelidade - Apoio à Pesquisa Histórica em MPB", 

created by three historians in Curitiba, Brazil, and co-ordinate by Prof. Dr. Marcos Napolitano (History Dept. at Federal University of Paraná). The site "Alta Fidelidade" contains several pages, including:

1. Research support and tools: bibliographies (more than 300 titles, including 60 unpublished papers and PhD thesis); timetable of Brazilian music (since 1870); researches in progress at Post-Graduate Programmes;
2. Special Dossiers: Tropicália; Protest Song in Brazil (in the 60's); Song Contests (1965-1969), with essays, bibliographies, sources, discographies and tons of lyrics.
3. Events, courses and journal announcements; call for papers and articles 
4. Links with MPB sites.

The content is totally free (we ask only the reference to our project), in Portuguese. But any contact and information request can be done in English, Italian, French or Spanish. The URL are: http://www.geocities.com/altafidelidade

For questions, requests and submissions,
get in contact with

... announces a forthcoming special issue on Gender and Sexuality (Vol. 20, No. 3, appearing October 2001). The issue editors are Barbara Bradby and Dave Laing. We would welcome papers on any aspect of these topics, such as:

• gender and sexuality in the production of popular music
• gendered consumption and fan practices
• gay and lesbian appropriations of popular music
• gender and/or sexuality in performance
• gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity/class
• gender and sexuality in the musical text

The deadline for submission of completed papers is 31 October, 2000. 3 copies are requested.

For enquiries, expressions, and submissions get in touch with:

Members of IASPM-USA are invited to submit nominations for the positions of President, Vice-President, and for an open seat on the Executive Board. Nominations may be sent to this e-mail address. You may of course nominate yourselves.

The current President, David Brackett, and the current Vice-President, Dave Sanjek, will not seek a second term. We owe much to both David and Dave whose productive leadership has contributed much to the unprecedented growth and vitality of IASPM in the past six years. Before serving as President, David Brackett served two terms as Secretary-Treasurer, and Dave Sanjek likewise had two terms as President before taking on the Vice-Presidency.

 announces eJazz-World-News, will be held 

B.B. KING, KEITH JARRETT, AL JAREAY and DIANA KRALL are the brightest names in a real constellation of Jazz stars that you will be able to see at this Festival, the eldest in Europe. The 35th anniversary of the eldest of the European Jazz Festivals (together with Antibes & Berlin) will bring together a genuine galaxy of Jazz stars in a splendid, varied, and highly entertaining program, with the presence of musicians and bands such as B.B. King, Keith Jarrett, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall, Marcus Miller, Mark Isham, David Murray, Kenny Barron, Vienna Art Orchestra and Uri Caine (with 7 different performances).

Tickets are on sale on the San Sebastian Jazz Festival Internet page www.jazzaldia.com and at the Festival offices (Tel. +34 943 481 193). More information about the Festival, the inclusive Tourist Offer and the complete Program can be found at the same Internet page.

Additional information:

the IASPM-US branch journal: 

• Deborah Pacini Hernandez
  holds a joint appointment as associate professor in the American Civilization Department and Urban Studies Program at Brown University, where she teaches Latino studies. She is the author of BACCHANTE: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music (Temple University Press, 1995) and numerous articles on Spanish Caribbean and US Latino popular music.

• Jeff Melnick
  is an assistant professor of American Studies at Baboon College, where he specializes in teaching ethnic studies and popular culture. His first book, A RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES: AFRICAN AMERICANS, JEWS, AND AMERICAN POPULAR SONG was published in 1999 (Harvard UP). He is currently finishing up work on a volume co-edited with Rachel Rubin, titled AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: NEW APPROACHES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (AMASS Press).
• Murray Forman 
  is currently a full-time faculty member in Communications Studies at North-eastern University and in September he will join the Media Studies Department at Queens College, CONEY, as an assistant professor. Forman's research focuses on contemporary youth cultures, race and the media, and popular music. His first book, "THE 'HOOD COMES FIRST": Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music and Hip Hop, will be published by Wesleyan University Press.
• Rachel Rubin 
  is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is author of JEWISH GANGSTERS OF MODERN FICTION (U of Illinois P, 2000) and co-editor of AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: NEW APPROACHES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (U of Mass P, 2000).
• Reebee Garofalo 
  is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Garofalo has written numerous articles on racism, censorship, the political uses of music, and the globalisation of the music industry. He is currently working on a second edition of ROCKIN' OUT: Popular Music in the USA (Prentice Hall, forthcoming) and is co-editing POLICING POPULAR MUSIC (Temple University Press, forthcoming).

has a new website, located at:

Those who prefer a shortcut, just remember:

To get in touch with the webmaster, mail to 

... the International Trade Fair for Musical Instruments and Sheet Music, Lighting, Sound and Event Technology which takes place in 

Frankfurt/Germany from April 12-16, 2000. 

In addition there will be concerts and seminars (special theme: music and Internet).

... now has established an

to memorize the American composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990).

Bernstein came to national prominence virtually overnight through a last-minute conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, when he substituted for Bruno Walter on November 14, 1943. He was twenty-five. Because Bernstein was a national figure from the very beginning of his career, his friend and teacher Helen Coates, who became his secretary in 1944, maintained his papers meticulously and extensively annotated many of them.

The Library’s Bernstein Collection, acquired over a forty-four year time span, offers a remarkably complete record of his life and is one of the Music Division's richest repositories in the variety and scope of its materials. Its more than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other types of materials extensively document Bernstein's extraordinary life and career.

The online Leonard Bernstein Collection makes available a selection of 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the Young People's Concerts, 74 scripts from the Thursday Evening Previews, and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence, in addition to the collection's complete Finding Aid.

Three categories have been included from the Personal Correspondence: correspondence between Bernstein and his family; between Bernstein and Helen Coates, his teacher, friend, and assistant for most of his professional life; and between Bernstein and his two most significant mentors, Aaron Copland and Serge Koussevitzky.

Two Special Presentations highlight the online collection: one is the Photo Gallery, containing all the online photographs arranged chronologically; and “Professor Lenny” by Joseph Horowitz, an in-depth article on Bernstein as music educator originally published in The New York Review of Books.

The Leonard Bernstein collection can be found at the following URL:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/

Please direct any questions to:

... a joint initiative of the French, German and Spanish and Latin American Studies (SPLAS) departments of the School of Modern Languages (SML) and the Music department at Newcastle, has started a collaborative, interdisciplinary and comparative programme of research. Links with researchers nationally in the UK and in Europe and the United States mean that the research project will be truly international. Scholars and students interested in being involved in the research project or to make comments, give advice or information that might be of benefit are requested to get in touch with one of the project leaders:

Dr. Ian Biddle, (Musicology),
Dr. Hugh Dauncey (French),
Dr. Vanessa Knights (Spanish),
Professor Richard Middleton (Musicology),
Dr. Jose Miguel Ribeiro-Lume (Portuguese), and
Professor Colin Riordan (German)

The Research group will be organizing a number of colloquia as the research progresses and a final plenary conference to address more fully the comparative and contrastive aspects of the project's investigations. The Project leaders will also be guest-editing a number of contributions to well-known music, cultural and area studies journals.

... dedicated to promoting the advancement and achievements of women in the music industry promise findings of all kinds of music by using their search-engine: from folk to alternative, hip-hop to metal, and everything in between. Exceptional women artists, women-fronted and all-girl bands are going to be spotlighted weekly in two languages. 

IASPM-UK member and bookseller offers to other IASPM members 

For a list of over 250 books, contact 

an Online Community dedicated to Swapping MP3s

NASHUA, NH (January 10, 2000) –Swap Station announced today, the Internet’s first site dedicated to swapping MP3 music files (www.mp123.com) is officially open for business. A successful beta test brought over 15,000 registered users to the site and over 430,000 music files to its catalogue.

Swap Station provides a virtual community for music enthusiasts looking to exchange music. Users simply register on the site and list the songs they have available for trade and those they would like to acquire. Swap Station's powerful match engine then identifies members who have the desired MP3s and gives users the opportunity to contact each other to make the swap.

(Boston, MA) January 11, 2000 - "Girl power" sweeps all top three prizes of the 1999 event. Overall Grand Prize of the 1999 USA Song writing Competition went to singer/songwriter Adrianne Gonzalez of Boston, MA with her song "Say Em Strong". Trina Belamide from the Philippines won the overall second  prize and Mary Coppin won the overall third prize. This was the first time that all top three prizes were won by women. Judges include representatives from Warner/Reprise Records, Walt Disney Music Publishing, SONY Music, Peer Music, ASCAP and Tommy Boy Records.

The USA Song writing Competition has also announced the launch of the Year 2000 song writing event. The competition's sponsors include Tannoy, MARS Music Superstore, Berklee Press, Mackie, Guild Guitars, D'Addario Strings, Digitech, Line 6, Kurzweil, E-mu Ensoniq, Electronic Musician, Music Connection, Audio Technica, Peavey, Gavin, Superdups, Rane, Tascam, ASN, Vibe, Blaze and SPIN Magazine.

For information on this event's rules, regulations and entry forms visit the competition website at