Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented a paper titled "Contrast Conceptions: (Alex) North and the South" at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Rochester, New York. The AMS is the largest and most significant musicological society in North America, and its meetings attract top scholars in the field from around the world. Lee's paper explored Alex North's role in creating soundtracks for films set in the American South, and those soundtracks' relationships to contemporary views of the region.
