Friends:
I know most of you through the SEM Special Interest Group: Europe, and am using our blog to make you aware of an Irish culture/music resource available to your campus in the Fall 2007 semester. I’m an SEM member, having presented, mostly recently on Anthony McCann's pedagogy panel, at several meetings, and authored a number of articles on the topic (most recently, in the lead article of New Hibernia Review 10/4 (Winter 2006), and a book. I teach musicology, ethnomusicology, and Irish studies at Texas Tech University in Lubbock TX. I’m a 30-year veteran of Irish traditional music performance, broadcasting, teaching, and recording, having concertized (on bouzouki, banjo, button accordion, and voice) across North America, Ireland, and Europe.
I’m also on a research-and-development sabbatical Aug 30-Dec 15 2007, and will be traveling extensively for archival work and professional engagements throughout that period. I would love to visit your campus, perhaps as part of a concert and/or lecture series, to share music and folklore, and thoughts on each, with your local community: specialists, generalists, students, colleagues, and members of the general public.
You can find more information on these possibilities at http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/chrissmi/education/ . Also, Dick Bizot, founding Director of Irish Studies at the University of North Florida (rbizot@unf.edu) , can comment on the range of events I’ve been able to offer at his campus, and has kindly agreed to do so. Or, feel free to contact me.
Chris Smith
To contact me at my university office:
(p) 806.742-2270 x249
(f) 806.742-2294
(e) christopher.smith@ttu.edu
(W) http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/chrissmi/educational_programs.html
(W) http://coyotebanjo.com
