Symposium on Music of the Sea
33rd Annual Sea Music Festival
8-9 June 2012

Co-sponsored by Mystic Seaport, the University of Connecticut at Avery
Point, and the United States Coast Guard Academy.

Friday, June 8, UConn Avery Point, Academic Building Room 308
9:00 Coffee and Danish
9:20 Welcome: Moderator Glenn S. Gordinier
9:30 Dan Milner, "Civil War Naval Songs: Recording 19th-Century
Historical Ballads & Lyrics"
10:15 Luisa Piemontese, "The Curse Of The Mermaid: Songs From The Sea of Naples"
11:00 Coffee and Danish
11:15 Stephen N. Sanfilippo, "'A Manley Prize': The Forgotten Ballad
of a Forgotten Naval Hero"
12:00 Lunch (can be purchased at Fin's Café in the Project Oceanology building)
1:30 William Hulllfish, "Sailors' Superstitions Reflected in Sailor Songs"
2:15 Gibb Schreffler, "Twentieth-Century Editors and the
Re-envisioning of Chanties: A Case Study of 'Lowlands Away'"
3:00 Soft drinks and cookies
3:15 Taylor Ho Bynum, "Lessons Learned from Seafaring Tales: The
Metaphors of Sea Novels used in Contemporary Composition"

Saturday, June 9, Mystic Seaport, Greenmanville Church
9:30 Welcome: Moderator Glenn S. Gordinier
Angus Kress Gillespie, "Songs and Stories of the Delaware Bay Region"
10:15 Robert Lloyd Webb, "'All for Fertilizer and Fireworks': Mineral
& Musical Notes from the South American Nitrate & Guano Trades"
11:00 James Revell Carr, "'He boatsteerer no hoi au no luna o
Reindeer" ('I am the boatsteerer aboard the Reindeer'): Songs and
Ballads of Hawaiian Whalers in the Nineteenth Century"

The first day of the symposium is free and will be held at the Avery
Point campus of the University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett
Road, Groton, CT, in Room 308 of the Academic Building. For directions
and a map of the campus:
http://averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/about.php

The second day of the symposium will be held in the Greenmanville
Church, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT. For
directions, click on "Plan Your Visit" at
http://www.mysticseaport.org. The cost of the symposium at Mystic
Seaport is included in the cost of admission to the 33rd Annual Sea
Music Festival. Click on "Sea Music Festival" under "Calendar of
Events" or go to
http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=F9B52A41-1E4F-379B-60A67B44BC2AFA73
Tickets can also be bought at the door.