My Encyclopedia of Music in Canada articles from June and July of 2009:
I heard on July 15th that “Rush and Philosophy” (which I’m co-editing and contributing towards) is going ahead in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series of Open Court Publishing. Now, I just have to figure out how to have it not take up too much of my time between September and April, especially given that my Simpsons’ music book for Oxford UP is also likely to be approved shortly. Could someone not have given me these book deals well BEFORE I was about to abandon musicology?
My editor is pleased with my updates to Chapter 1 of Be Sharp: ‘The Simpsons’ & Music. I will shortly revise Chapter 3, and then the book will go to the external reviewers. I am optimistic that this book will be published in 2010. In addition, “Intertextual Music & Discursive Parody in The Simpsons” (which I presented at a conference at McGill in Montreal in April) has been accepted for the 4th Annual ECHO conference, Music and Humor, being held at UCLA on June 5 and 6. Eric Wang, one of my 2008 teaching assistants, has agreed to present it for me.
My Encyclopedia of Music in Canada articles from March, April and May 2009:
(Yes, that IS all over the map!)
For my existing EMC articles, do a search on my name at: http://canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=EMCSubjects&Params=U1.
In March, I heard from an upstate New York teacher (Jim Berti) who is interested in putting together a book called Rush and Philosophy in the ongoing series that began with Seinfeld and Philosophy. After some discussions by email, I agreed to co-edit (and contribute to) this book, contacted a number of likely contributors, and proposed that abstracts be submitted by the end of May. For my own contributions, I will use elements from my dissertation, an article on Canadianness I had recently submitted to an academic journal, and my “Rush Tributes” article that may still be published elsewhere. Hopefully, we would be able to get this published in 2010. I still also hope to publish my own book on Rush (i.e., more closely related to my dissertation), possibly in 2011.
Durrell Bowman 