Jason Schultz, attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will speak about contemporary legal, copyright and technology issues stemming from the inherent creative tensions between new technology and artistic expression, during an appearance on the Belmont University campus on Wednesday, Jan. 28.
Schultz will address the most recent entertainment industry issues ranging from the online distribution of music and film, and peer-to-peer technologies and networks, to the constitutional rights of the American public and copyright owners.
His appearance is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. in the multimedia room at the Bunch Library. The event is open to the public and the media is invited to attend.
Expert on Digital Copyright Issues Speaks at Belmont
School of Music’s Annual Showcase Set
The Belmont University School of Music presents its annual Commercial Music Showcase February 2, featuring five of the School of Music’s best student performers. The 2004 Commercial Music Showcase is scheduled for 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 2, in the Massey Concert Hall on the Belmont University campus, located at 1900 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville. The Showcase is open to the public free of charge. VIP reserved parking is available for press and music industry personnel by calling 460-8115.
Cutting-edge Multimedia Journalist to Speak at Belmont
Multimedia journalist Jeff Houck of The Tampa Tribune will speak at Belmont University on Monday, Jan. 26, on the subject of being a journalist in the modern, digital, multi-media era. The event, presented by the Belmont University New Century Journalism Speaker
Belmont Grad Provides Expert National Political Research
Belmont University political science graduate Drew Johnson, now a policy analyst with the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation in Washington D.C., has co-authored a study on the budget proposals of the various candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. Johnson graduated from Belmont University in 2001 with a BS in Political Science, and also has a Master of Public Policy from Pepperdine University.
His policy study, The Return of Fuzzy Math and Risky Schemes: How Presidential Hopefuls Would Deepen Deficits, is available online here. You can also read Johnson’s op-ed published Monday in the Wall Street Journal online here.
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Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game & Concert Returns to Belmont’s Campus After Two-Year Hiatus
The Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University announces the return of the Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game & Concert on March 22, 2004. Last held in 2000, the event find its home in the new, state-of-the-art Curb Event Center, completed in September, 2003. For one evening, Country music artists gather to face off for a riveting game of basketball (realizing why they need not quit their day jobs) and settle down at the end for an intimate acoustic concert for the fans. During the game a silent auction will also be held, featuring items donated by various artists.
Confirmed artists for this event include Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Trick Pony, Cledus T. Judd, Jimmy Wayne, Pinmonkey, Ray Benson from Asleep at the Wheel and Mark Miller of Sawyer Brown.
MercyMe, Amy Grant, Bring Concert Tour to Belmont
Platinum-selling and recent American Music Award nominee MercyMe, multi-platinum and GRAMMY award-winning artist Amy Grant, along with multiple Dove Award nominee Bebo Norman will appear in concert at Belmont University’s new Curb Event Center on January 30th as The Imagine Tour launches its two-month, 25-city run in Nashville.
Lloyd Describes Newsroom Diversity Progress
Wanda Lloyd, executive director of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, described what it was like to emerge from the segregated South to become one of the nation’s most successful African-American newspaper journalists in an appearance Wednesday at Belmont University.
Speaking before an audience at the Beaman Student Life Center as the first speaker in the university’s New Century Journalism Speaker’s Series, Lloyd said the race riots of the 1960s were the starting point for many of today’s African-American journalists, as formerly all-white newsrooms sought out minorities to better cover minority communities.
Cusic Publishes Book on Baseball and Country Music
The parallel histories of baseball and country music are the topic of an engaging new book, Baseball and Country Music, by Dr. Don Cusic, a Belmont University music business professor, songwriter and country music historian in Nashville.
Dr. Cusic’s book describes how the histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks through most of the twentieth century, and how “America’s sport and America’s music moved from the fringes to the mainstream, gaining exposure and building heroes, first via radio broadcasts and then on the television screen.” Both baseball and country music evolved with American society through wartime, the Civil Rights movement, and into the age of multimillion dollar superstars.
Cusic’s book, just published by the University of Wisconsin Press, offers an engaging and insightful analysis that addresses race, gender, class, ethnicity, business practices and marketing, performance, media, and the cult of celebrity.
Pitino on Campus
Famed college basketball coach Rick Pitino was on Belmont’s campus Tuesday night. Nashville City Paper has the details. Coverage with photographic proof here
More Josh Turner News
Country Weekly reports on the marriage of rising country music star – and Belmont University graduate – Josh Turner who, it was reported recently, will open for Brooks & Dunn on their upcoming tour.
