Whitney Slaten: Jazzmobile, Community and the Harlem Soundscape (9/19 6PM, St Pauls Chapel)

The Center for Jazz Studies in Conjunction with Music and St. Paul's and Jazzmobile Present:

Jazzmobile, Community and the Harlem Soundscape

Featuring a Performance by the Jazzmobile All Stars Ensemble

Talk by:
Whitney Slaten
Ph.D. Candidate in Music, Columbia University

Date and Time: Tuesday, September 19, 6pm
Location: St. Paul’s Chapel
(Columbia University main campus 116th Street and Broadway New York City)


In response to the increasing inaccessibility of jazz performances in Harlem, Dr. Billy Taylor founded Jazzmobile in 1964, a not-for-profit arts organization that presents free, professional, live jazz concerts in order to bring jazz “back to Harlem.” Jazzmobile has presented free, live jazz concerts continuously for over fifty years, through which audiences, production teams, organizers and musicians sound and listen to amplified jazz at historical sites in Harlem’s outdoors.

Jazzmobile, Community, and the Harlem Soundscape engages how Jazzmobile constructs community and the soundscape of Harlem in the midst of Harlem’s changing milieu. The program features performances by Jazzmobile all stars, a keynote address interrogating Jazzmobile as cultural repatriation and a roundtable discussion with Jazzmobile audience members.
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This event is free and open to everyone. Please rsvp to ym189@columbia.edu or call 212-851-9270

Co-Presented by Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies, Music at St. Paul’s & Jazzmobile