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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition (Oxford University Press) This updated and expanded dictionary (originally published in 1986 as _The New Grove Dictionary of American Music_, eds. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie) will contain 9,000 articles that address the musical life and cultures, past and present, within the regions now constituting the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. The revised dictionary will be published electronically (www.oxfordmusiconline.com) and in an eight-volume hardbound set. We seek specialists from a wide variety of disciplines to write articles on topics across the musical spectrum. If you are interested in contributing, please send a brief C.V. and a list of research interests (drawn from the list below) to the editor-in-chief (Dr. Charles Hiroshi Garrett) at [log in to unmask] We hope to hear from professors, independent scholars, critics, and advanced graduate students. Contributors will be contacted regarding their choice of topic(s) with information about available articles, length, scope, and honorarium. Because this is a time-sensitive project, our typical commissions are contracted with a 3-month deadline. Articles will be signed by the author, and most will include a selective bibliography, works list, or discography, as appropriate. Dictionary subject areas with available articles include: African-American music Asian-American music Blues Choral music Cities / regions Concert music (20th century, including composers, conductors, and performers) Country and Folk Euro-American music (including the music of individual ethnic communities) Gospel Hawaiian music Jazz Latino music Musical theater and opera Popular music (18th century to the present, across all subgenres) Publishers and record labels Sacred music Writers and critics We sincerely hope that you will contribute to this important project. Dr. Charles Hiroshi Garrett Associate Professor, Musicology University of Michigan [log in to unmask] http://sitemaker.umich.edu/amerigrove