Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented her paper "A Resisting Reading of an Appalachian Murder Ballad: Giving Voice to 'Pretty Polly'" at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference held at the University of Virginia/Charlottesville, October 14-17. She gave this paper on campus earlier this month at a Kirkland Project Brown Bag Talk.
From the IASPM Web site: IASPM is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. On national and international levels, the organization's activities include conferences, publications, and research projects designed to advance an understanding of popular music and the processes involved in its production and consumption. To build a large and diverse body of knowledge of popular music, IASPM is an organization which is both interprofessional and interdisciplinary. It welcomes as members anyone involved with popular music.
