Fred Maus Lecture: "Songs About Aids by the B-52s and the Pet Shop Boys"

You are cordially invited to a lecture by Fred E. Maus (University of Virginia) entitled "Songs About AIDS by the B-52s and the Pet Shop Boys."  It will take place in Talbott Library Room 2 on the Westminster Choir College campus of Rider University on Thursday, April 3 at 11:30 a.m.  Erina Pearlstein, a junior majoring in Music Education, will deliver the response.  The event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

The lecturer, Fred Everett Maus, teaches music at the University of Virginia. His work has addressed issues in music criticism and aesthetics, music and narrative, gender and sexuality, and popular music. Recent or forthcoming publications include an essay on Berlioz and masculinity, a survey of Anglophone gender studies in musicology (published in French for Francophone musicologists), a survey of narrative studies and music for the /Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory/, and an essay on Michael Stipe and the politics of sexual self-identification.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Music Composition, History and Theory.  Questions related to this event should be directed to Eric Hung (ehung@rider.edu).  Hope to see you on Thursday!