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.
MercyMe, Amy Grant, Bring Concert Tour to Belmont
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.
Outspoken Political Commentator Julianne Malveaux to speak at Belmont
Popular and outspoken political commentator Julianne Malveaux will speak at Belmont University on January 20. Her appearance is sponsored by the university’s New Century Journalism Speakers Series, as part of activities on campus to honor Martin Luther King Day. Click Here for a copy of the New Century Journalism Speakers Series poster.
Dr. Malveaux also will speak at 7 p.m. in the Massey Concert Hall, as the keynote speaker for Martin Luther King Day activities on campus. Her evening speech, titled “Living Her Dream,” is sponsored by the MLK Committee and the Communications Studies Department.
Does Newsroom Diversity Matter? Find Out at Belmont, Jan. 15
Wanda Lloyd, executive director of the Diversity Institute at the Freedom Forum, will speak to Belmont University journalism students and guests January 15 on the topic of whether racial diversity in the nation’s newsrooms really matters. Lloyd is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. in Meeting Room A in the Beaman Student Life Center on the Belmont campus.
The event, presented by the Belmont University New Century Journalism Speaker’s Series, is free and open to the public and the news media. Journalists, educators and students are invited and encouraged to attend. Click Here for a copy of the New Century Journalism Speakers Series poster.
Belmont Awards Distinguished Nashville Businessman Honorary Ph.D
Belmont University has granted an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree to Nashville business leader Gordon E. Inman, founder, chairman and president of Franklin Financial Corporation, is a Belmont University trustee. He was awarded the honorary doctorate by Belmont University President Dr. Robert C. Fisher during Winter Commencement ceremonies Friday, Dec. 19, at the university’s Curb Event Center.
Cornwall Commentary
Nashville Business Journal has published a guest commentary in today’s edition by Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University.
You can read the whole thing by clicking here
Christmas at Belmont: National Broadcast Nears
Christmas at Belmont is coming to a television screen near you, and Nashville audiences will have two opportunities to see the concert that has become an annual and much-anticipated tradition at Belmont University.
Expert in Famous Music Industry Court Battles to Speak at Belmont
Stan Soocher, author of the acclaimed book, They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court, will appear as guest speaker at Belmont University Copyright Society
Talking Tolkien on Eve of Third Lord of the Rings Movie
Dr. Amy Sturgis, a Belmont University professor of science fiction/fantasy studies, media studies, and Native American studies, will present a very special multimedia talk on J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, on the evening of December 11. Dr. Sturgis teaches a course at Belmont titled J.R.R. Tolkien in History, Political Thought, and Literature.
