Mystic Seaport's 34th Annual Symposium
"MUSIC OF THE SEA"
Sponsored by Mystic Seaport Museum, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point

June 7 & 8, 2013

Friday, June 7, United States Coast Guard Academy, McAllister Hall Auditorium, Engineering Bldg

9:00 am        Coffee and Morning Refreshments
9:20 am        Welcome
9:30 am        William Dunlap, "From Birkenhead to Cherbourg—The Cruise of the Alabama in Lyric,
                Lore, & Law"
10:15 am        April Gant, "I Am the Pirate of the Isles: The Heroic Pirate in Popular Songs of the
                Whaling Era"
11:15 am        Paul Mercer, "'Of Dartmoor Prison, I'll Tell All I Can': The Prison Songbook of Thomas
                B. Mott, 1814-1815:
Lunch
1:35 pm        Jon Campbell, "The Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering"
2:20 pm        Amanda Daly Berman, "Progenitors, Progress, and Preservation: Cultural and Musical
                Connections amongst Cape Breton and its Boston Diaspora"

Saturday, June 8, Mystic Seaport Museum, Greenmanville Church

9:30 am        Marti Klein, "Temporary Mobility, Travel Narratives, and the 'Pull' of the Sea"
10:15 am        Anita Gomez, "Jigs, Buck Dances, and Sounding the Deck in African American Dance"
11:15 am        Aaron Walker, "Reenacting the Music of Williamsburg: The Shanties of the Georgia Sea
                Island Singers"

Please join us at Mystic Seaport for the rest of the weekend for the
Sea Music Festival!