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Introduction | Questionnaire Summary | Field Agenda | Readings /Websites
Welcome to the Performing Arts Field Group We surely have the most exciting area of all - poised as it is between performance, publication, education, and entertainment. Your committee represents the following societies and most of you are members of one or more of these.
We hope that, when our weekend is over, we will have some exciting project ideas to take back to our various societies for action. As we look over the impressive array of questionnaire responses in our area, three themes come through quite strongly: First is the use of resources. A major need is for access to primary sources. Issues of cataloging, indexing, preserving, and just locating primary sources were mentioned by many respondents. A second theme was the need for tools to facilitate research. Finally, barriers for scholarship came up often, including the need for professional recognition of collaborative work and of digital publication and the vexing issues of validation and fair use. Working together, we have developed the list of websites, you'll find below, describing imaginative projects that respond to some of these knotty problems and issues. It would be very helpful if we all looked at these beforehand so that we will have a common starting point as we gather in Washington to survey the field and think about the future. WIth great hopes for our discussions, Kate Keller In the following pages you will find:
Melanie Blood, Associate Professor of Performing Arts & Assistant Director, School of Performing Arts, SUNY - Geneseo Jeff Burke, Technology Coordinator, UCLA HyperMedia Studio, School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA David Crawford, Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan Mary Davidson, Head, William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music Laura Gayle Green, Music/Media Librarian, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri Frank Hildy, Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland Susan Kattwinkel, Assistant Professor of Theatre History, College of Charleston Bob Keller, Computer Scientist Kate Keller, Society of American Music Gary Maciag, Director of Theatre, Siena College, NY Thomas J. Mathiesen, Professor of Music and Director, Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University Bruce McConachie, Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh Frank Mohler, Professor of Theatre, Appalachian State University Mark Pizzato, Assistant Professor, Dept of Dance and Theater, University of North Carolina at Charlotte David Saltz, Assistant Professor, Department of Drama and Theatre, University of Georgia Mary Strow, Librarian for Dance, Theatre and Drama, Indiana University Libraries Larry Worster, Assistant Professor of Music, Metropolitan State College of Denver Dan Zellner, Executive Director, Studio Z |
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Musicological Society - Robert Judd