Schedule

8:30 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Welcome

	*John M. Rudley* Interim Chancellor, University of Houston System, and Interim President, University of Houston	*David A. White* Director, Moores School of Music, University of Houston	*Joseph A. Kotarba* President, Faculty Senate, and Professor of Sociology, University of Houston
9:30	"American Idols and Canadian Renegades"
	*Phillip Vannini* Associate Professor, School of Communications and Culture, Royal Roads University
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	“Mapping the Varieties of Latino Music in Houston”
	Joseph Kotarba, Professor of Sociology, University of Houston
11:30 a.m.	Lunch and Speakers: “Gershwin and African-American Music”
	Howard Pollack, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music, University of Houston, and *Timothy Jones* Associate Professor of Voice, University of Houston
1:00 p.m.	“Fakin' It: Is There Authenticity in Commercial Music?”
	Theodore Gracyk Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Minnesota State University Moorhead
2:00 p.m.	Panel and Performance: “Voice”
	“The Science of the Singing Voice” Monica McHenry, Associate Professor of Communication Disorders, University of Houston, and *Joseph Evans* Professor of Voice, University of Houston “Music for a While” Katherine Ciesinski Professor of Voice, University of Houston
3:00 p.m.	"Striking Out for the Deep Water: The Evolution of Blues and the Blues/Jazz Tradition in Ann Petry's 'Solo on the Drums' and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'"
	*Elizabeth Brown-Guillory* Professor of English, University of Houston, and Blues/Jazz artists including Gloria Edwards Mills and Nelson Mills, III; Free Radicals--band members Teofilio Bijarro, Nick Cooper, and Jason Jackson
4:00 p.m.	Panel and Performance: “Authenticity in Music: The Artists’ and Critics’ Voice”
	*Rick Mitchell, Writer Robert Wilson, Lecturer, Arts and Humanities, UH-Downtown Brad Sayles*, composer
4:00 p.m.	Conclusion