Category: Jazz
Event Start:
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
Writing Musical LivesJohn 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
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Collection of be-bop, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, rap, reggae, rock, zydeco
and other forms to be made available for research and education
NEW YORK, April 7, 2009 — Columbia University has joined in a cooperative agreement with the ARChive of Contemporary Music, the largest collection of popular music in the world, to integrate the resources of the archive into arts programming at the university and other educational and scholarly activities.
The partnership is between the archive, Columbia University Libraries and the Arts Initiative at Columbia. Holdings of the archive include the Keith Richards Blues Collection, endowed by Richards, and the 50,000 disc World Music collection. read more »
Event Start:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
301 Philosophy Hall
The Center for Jazz Studies invites you to join us for the inaugural lecture of the fall 2008 semester of our Louis Armstrong Visiting Professorship program
"You Can't Listen Alone":
On The Sociality of Listening in a Vernacular South African Jazz Worldfeaturing
Brett Pyper
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Introduced by Gwen Ansell
the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor
at the Center for Jazz Studies, Fall 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
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