Communications and Announcements

III Coloquio Internacional de Musicología

María Elena Vinueza, the director of the Music Department of the Cuban Casa de las Américas announced the realization of the International Colloquium in Havana, 27-31 October 2003. The Colloquium was meant for musicologists, musicians, teachers, and all other specialists interested in the study of Latin American and Caribbean musical culture. The main themes of the conference were: music archives and patrimony, folklore and mestizaje in Latin America and the Caribbean, tradition and modernity in contemporary popular music, trends and aesthetic projections in academic music creation, and theoretical and analytical perspectives in Latin American musicology.

The Colloquium coincided with the ninth competition of the "Premio de Musicología Casa de las Américas" whose award is to take place on 31 October. Papers will be published in the bulletin Música of the Casa de las Américas. For specific information, consult the website: http://www.casa.cult.cu.

Songs Across the Americas Festivals

Organized by Songs Unlimited, Inc. from Arkansas, these festivals are meant to bring together scholars, composers, performers, and listeners in various living cultural history settings in the Western Hemisphere to promote the art of American song. The festival activities provide a "total immersive" experience to facilitate a deeper and more vivid understanding of the culture of the Americas as reflected in songs from both South and North America.

The 2003 Festival, 14-27 August, focused on the song culture of five Andean countries, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, and brought selected songs and their creators from the United States to join the Festival.

For further information, contact the president and director Kay Kraeft at kkraeft@swbell.net or at http://www.songsunlimited.org.

XIV Congresso da ANPPOM

ANPPOM is the Brazilian Association of Graduate Study and Research in Music, founded in the late 1980s. This Congress took place in Porto Alegre, 18-21 August, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and involved numerous topics, working groups, paper presentations, and invited lectures. The Association includes music education/music therapy, theory and composition, musicology and ethnomusicology, popular music study and media study, music and technology, and applied music study.

For more specific information, consult ANPPOM's website: http://www.musica.ufmg.br/anppom.