EVENTS: Colorado College is Hosting Its First Ever Scholarly Symposium Featuring Billy Joel

Billy Joel [photo credit Myrna Suarez]

Colorado College is hosting “It’s Still Rock and Rock to Me: The Music and Lyrics of Billy Joel,” the first-ever scholarly symposium on the music and lyrics of the consummate singer-songwriter Billy Joel, America’s “piano man.”

This public musicology conference, to be held Oct. 7-8 on the Colorado College campus, includes approximately 30 presentations from scholars in musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, history, comparative literature and related fields.

The keynote event of the conference is “Take the Phone off the Hook,” a live phone interview with Joel, conducted by the organizers of the symposium with questions submitted by conference presenters.

For more information symposium, please contact Colorado College Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Bañagale at (719) 389-6558 or rrb@coloradocollege.edu

Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
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