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Institute
for Studies in American Music
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the
Humanities
at Brooklyn College
In conjunction with
the Conservatory of Music, African Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies,
Women's Center, and the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies at Brooklyn
College
Fall
2004
Music in Polycultural America
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Modern Feminist Scholarship and American Music
 Judith
Tick is the Matthews Distinguished
University Professor of Music, Northeastern University. Professor Tick is a
leading authority on American music and women's history. Her publications
include Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition,
1150-1950 and the award-winning biography Ruth
Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music.
Wednesday, 29
September, 1:40-3 pm, Alumni Lounge, Student Center
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Calypso
in New York City: Concert & Lecture
 Dr.
Hollis "Chalkdust" Liverpool is one of the leading
Trinidadian calypsonians of the past 30 years and is a professor in the
Social Sciences Division of the University of the Virgin Islands, St.
Thomas.Among his many calypso-related publications is Rituals of Power and
Rebellion: The Carnival Tradition in Trinidad & Tobago, 1763-1962. Dr.
Liverpool is the reigning 2004 Trinidad Calypso Monarch. His presentation
will focus on the diaspora of calypso songs to the United States and
beyond.
Saturday, 30 October, 8pm, Levenson Recital
Hall
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Clawing at the Limits
of Cool: Collaboration between Miles Davis and John Coltrane
 Farah
Jasmine Griffin is Director of the Institute
for Research in African American Studies and Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, Columbia University. She is author of Who
Set You Flowin': The African American Migration Narrative and If
You Can't Be Free Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday. Salim
Washington is Assistant Professor of Music, Brooklyn
College. A tenor saxophonist, composer, and cultural theorist, he is
completing a book on John Coltrane. Their presentation will be drawn from
their forthcoming book that focuses on the collaboration between John
Coltrane and Miles Davis from 1955 to 1961.
Tuesday, 16 November, 3:30 pm, State Lounge,
Student Center
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The Brooklyn College Student Center is located on
Campus Road and East 27th Street.
For
more information, please call ISAM at (718) 951-5655
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