| 08:45 - 09:30 | Prelude: Music by Charles Ives (1874-1954) Postlude in F; Calcium Light Night; Symphony no. 4 (Fugue); Central Park in the Dark; String Quartet no. 1 |
| 09:30 - 09:40 | Welcome |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Jody Pennington (Department of English, Aarhus
University) 'From New Orleans to Memphis: A Sojourn Along the Southern Roots of Rock 'n' Roll' |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Niels Nørlund Rasmussen (Department of English, Aarhus
University) 'From Afros to Nose Jobs; or, How Black Pop Music was Swallowed by Corporate America' |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Dale Carter (Department of English, Aarhus University) '"All the Wrong Notes are Right": Charles Ives and the American Progressive Synthesis' |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Coda 'Hey Now Baby' (Professor Longhair); 'A Fool for You' (Ray Charles); 'Wonderful World' (Sam Cooke); 'Just Can't Live That Fast (Any More)' (Lefty Frizzell); 'Kindhearted Woman Blues' (Robert Johnson) |
Jody Pennington is a native of Albany, Georgia, and holds degrees in English from Georgia Southwestern College and the University of Aarhus. He has taught at both the University of Aarhus and the Aarhus Business School, and has published work on the growth of rock'n'roll in the United States. His previous research has focused on the nature of American liberalism, and he is currently a doctoral candidate at the Department of English, Aarhus University, working on aspects of American popular music and film.
Niels Nørlund Rasmussen received his Cand. Phil. in English from the University of Aarhus in 1996, having completed a speciale on the development of black music since World War Two. His research interests include modernist literature, particularly the works of D. H. Lawrence, and black culture.
Dale Carter is lektor in American Studies at the Department of English, Aarhus University. He is the author of The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State(1988) and a number of articles on various aspects of twentieth century American culture and society, and has edited Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America (1993) and Blood on the Nash Ambassador (1989). He is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the theme of American exceptionalism.
The organizers would like to thank the Rector and the Departments of English
and Music, Aarhus University, for their generous assistance in making this symposium
possible.