Christopher Washburne in NY Times!
Check out the photo and feature on professor Christopher Washburne in the NY Times:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/showcase-159/?scp=1&sq=washburne&st=cse
Writing Musical Lives -- John Szwed
John Szwed
The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall, April 13, 5:30 pm
This talk will focus on some of the virtues and problems of writing about the lives of musicians. It will include a quick
survey of the types and uses of life narratives by ethnomusicologists, folklorists, social scientists, and popular writers, with a short discussion of some recent innovative biographical works. Examples will be drawn from a variety of biographies, including my books on Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, and Alan Lomax
Jazz Festivals and Cosmopolitan Vernaculars -- Anne Dvinge
Anne C. Dvinge, University of Copenhagen
Jazz continues to migrate across national, ethnic, and cultural borders, jazz festivals function as physical and symbolic spaces where the dynamics between the vernacular and the cosmopolitan are put into play. On the one hand, these events are thoroughly vernacular affairs, where communities define and celebrate themselves. But on the other, the celebrations are often aimed at both the local culture of a city and at local, national, and transnational articulations of jazz communities, providing contact zones not just between audiences, performers, and those at the fringes of the festivals, but also between different soundscapes and "acoustemologies".
In this talk Anne Dvinge will take a closer look at jazz festivals, and specifically the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, as manifestations of this double sense of the cosmopolitan and the vernacular, where jazz enters into dialogue with local music cultures. Perhaps, in the constant negotiation and renegotiation of these positions, jazz offers a way out of the either/or bind of the global versus the local.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 8:00 pm
622 Dodge Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Flirting with America: The Zestful Tale of Italian Jazz -- Enzo Capua
Enzo Capua, with Sara Villa, State University of Milan
This conversation focuses on the key figures and events that have characterized the evolution of jazz in Italy, from its origins just before the Fascist era to the present day. Capua and Villa discuss the roles that musicians, critics, festivals, and educational institutions have played in engaging African-American and European musical cultures as a basis for forging a distinguished Italian jazz tradition.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:30pm
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Campus Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/philosophy.html
Free and open to the public
Jazz Studies Beyond the Commercial Album
Philmore Ensemble Lunchtime Concert
New Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Announced!
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and American Composers Orchestra announce a new collaborative project: the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI). With generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this program will provide instruction to jazz composers in working with the symphony orchestra, an area that many jazz composers wish to engage, but for which access to educational and performance opportunities are few. JCOI will take place in two stages: the Intensive and the Readings.
From July 20 to 24, 2010, up to 35 participants, selected from a national pool of applicants, will take part in the JCOI Intensive on the Columbia University campus, where they will work with prominent composers, performers, conductors, and music industry leaders in seminars, workshops and performance labs in orchestration, instrumentation, contemporary techniques, score preparation and ideas for incorporating improvisation within an orchestral framework. Professional development workshops will address promotion, publishing, copyright and commissioning agreements, and other career essentials.
Featured Undergraduate Courses for Spring 2009-10
Featured Undergraduate Courses for Spring 2009-10
Featured Undergraduate Courses for Spring 2009-10
Prof. George Lewis Wins Music in American Culture Award from AMS
We congratulate George Lewis, the Edwin Case Professor of American Music, whose 2008 book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (Univ. of Chicago Press) has been awarded the "Music in American Culture" prize for "outstanding scholarship in the music of the United States" by the American Musicological Society, at the AMS 2009 annual meeting in Philadelphia.
A Power Stronger Than Itself was also recently awarded The American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation.
