40th Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
March 5-6, 2010
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
 The faculty of Appalachian State University is proud to host the 40th Regional Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of The College Music Society on our campus. ASU is located in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of Western North Carolina. Our meeting will take place in the Broyhill Music Center, which is home for the Hayes School of Music. We look forward to seeing you in March and sharing new research, compositions, performances, and pedagogical ideas.
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"The Pa's Fiddle Project: Towards a Public Musicology"
Dale Cockrell
 Dale Cockrell is Professor of Musicology in the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University. He is widely published in the field of American music studies, including Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the C. Hugh Holman Award; Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1846 (Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon, 1989), recipient of the Irving Lowens Award; and more than one hundred other books, articles, and monographs. He is a former president of the Society for American Music and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. Cockrell has received three NEH Fellowships and other grants, awards, and honors. He has held appointments to Indiana University, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, The College of William and Mary, and the University of Alabama.
Professor Cockrell's work of late has focused on The Pa's Fiddle Project, a program centered on the music embedded in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. One result of the Project will be the publication of The Ingalls-Wilder Family Songbook in 2010 by the Music of the United States of America project. Cockrell established Pa's Fiddle Recordings in 2004 and has since released Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder (2005; honored by the NEH by inclusion on its We the People Bookshelf), The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie (2007), and Pa's Fiddle: Charles Ingalls (1836-1902), American Fiddler will be released in 2010.
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The 2010 chapter meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the College Music Society will be held at the Broyhill Music Center at the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
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From the northeast via Interstate 81 and Interstate 77:
Take I-81 south to I-77, west of Radford, Va. Proceed south on I-77 into North Carolina. Exit onto Highway 421 North and travel approximately 60 miles to Boone. In Boone, turn left at light onto Hardin St. and then right onto Rivers St. at the next light. The Hayes School of Music in the Broyhill Music Center will be on the left.
From the south via Interstate 77:
Proceed north on I-77 through Charlotte and Statesville. Continue on I-77 North until you reach the I-77/HWY 421 interchange. Exit onto Highway 421 North and travel approximately 60 miles to Boone. In Boone, turn left at light onto Hardin St. and then right onto Rivers St. at the next light. The Hayes School of Music in the Broyhill Music Center will be on the left.
From the west via Interstate 40 (Asheville and/or Hickory):
In Asheville, take I-40 East to Highway 221 in Marion. Exit onto Highway 221 North and follow to Linville. In Linville, take Highway 105 North to Boone. In Boone, at the intersection of highways 105 & 321, turn left onto Highway 321 North. Follow to campus. -OR- When traveling on I-40 in the Hickory area, exit onto Highway 321 North and travel approximately 50 miles to Boone. Follow Highway 321 North to
campus.
From the east via Interstate 40 and Interstate 85:
Proceed to Winston-Salem on I-40. Exit onto Highway 421 North in Winston-Salem and travel approximately 86 miles to Boone. In Boone, turn left at light onto Hardin St. and then right onto Rivers St. at the next light. The Hayes School of Music in the Broyhill Music Center will be on the left.
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The Broyhill Hill and Appalachian Conference Center
Overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian's on-campus Broyhill Inn and Conference Center offers a convenient location with newly refurbished rooms and a full-service conference center. Located on a hill above the main campus, the Inn is surrounded by a breathtaking 25-mile view at 3,500 feet in elevation. It is just minutes from the Broyhill Music Center.
The rate for the Broyhill Inn is $94.00 + tax. Please refer to The College Music Society conference when registering as a block of rooms has been delegated for this event. To register, visit www.broyhillinn.com.
Other nearby options include:
La Quinta Inn
165 Highway 105 Extension
Boone, NC 28607
(828) 262-1234
Super 8 Boone
2419 Hwy 105 South
Boone, NC 28607
(828) 264-4133
www.super8.com
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The conference will be hosted by ASU faculty members Reeves Shulstad, Jennifer Snodgrass and Kimberly Wangler. If there are any questions about the location, venue, or program, please do not hesitate to contact Reeves Shulstad at shulstader@appstate.edu.
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