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“Improvising
America”
The second KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Colloquium
March 3, 2005, 8:45 am – 6:15 pm, Alderson
Auditorium
With Keynote address by Jane Ira Bloom
| 8:45
- 9:00 |
Opening
Remarks
William J. Harris,
English, University of Kansas |
| 9:00 - 10:25 |
Panel
1: Improvising the Politics of Sound and Critique
Matthew Sumera, “Max Roach's Politics of Sound”
Liberal Studies, University of Minnesota
Michael T. Spencer, "’In the Blood’:
Emotion, Blackness, and the Quest for Authenticity in 'Cool' Jazz,
1953-1963”
American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Monica L. Hairston, “Hazel Scott: Narratives
of an American Musician”
Ethnomusicology, New York University |
| 10:40 - 12:05 |
Panel
2: Jazz on the Run: Improvising Identities After the “Golden
Age”
Robert R. Maclean, “After the Revolution:
Archie Shepp and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in the 1970s”
Department of History, University of Michigan
Paul
A. Anderson, “Steely Dan and the Pleasures of Simulation”
American Culture Program, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies,
University of Michigan
Tamar
Barzel, “‘Rootless Cosmopolitans,’ ‘Selfhaters’
Orchestra,’ ‘Jews and the Abstract Truth’: Theorizing
Jewish Identity on New York City’s 1990’s Downtown Scene”
Department of Music, Wellesley College |
| 12:15 - 1:20
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Lunch
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| 1:45 - 2:45 |
KEYNOTE:
“Improvisation: Like The Weather”
Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophonist/composer
Introduced by Dan Gailey, Music & Dance, University of Kansas
Event held in Baustian Theatre, Murphy Hall |
| 3:15 - 4:40 |
Panel
3: Improvising and Jazzing Race and Nation
Kevin
Fellezs, “Silenced But Not Silent: Asian Americans
and Jazz”
Music Department, Berkeley
Monique
Laney, “Improvising Germany: On the construction
of ‘German Jazz’ at the annual Jazzforum in Darmstadt,
Germany, in 1995”
American Studies, University of Kansas
Yusuke
Torii, “Occupation with Syncopation: Race, Music,
and Censored Democracy in Japan in the Wake of World War II”
American Studies, George Washington University |
| 4:55 - 5:
55 |
Panel
4: Redefining and Improvising Jazz History
Adam
Bush, “The Role of Public School Teachers in Jazz
History”
Independent Scholar
William
Harvill, “Ragtime: the Jazz Before 1917”
Music & Dance, University of Kansas |
| 6:00 - 6:15 |
Closing
Remarks
Chuck
Berg,
Theatre & Film, University of Kansas |
For further information
contact
William J. Harris (wjh8@ku.edu)
FREE AND OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC
The colloquium is
held in conjunction with the 28th KU Jazz Festival and with “Writing,
Teaching, Performing America,” an interdisciplinary conference.
”Improvising America” is sponsored by the KU Interdisciplinary
Jazz Group, KU Center for Research and the University of Kansas Libraries.
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