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Regular course offerings at both the undergraduate and Masters level
include seminars on jazz topics, jazz history surveys, jazz theory, jazz big
band, and small jazz ensemble. In Spring 2005, courses offered include a
seminar in jazz history and historiography, “Jazz Musicians as
Intellectuals” taught by Prof. Salim Washington,
and two jazz ensembles, led by Prof. Washington.
Prof. Jeff Taylor (on leave, Spring 2005) regularly teaches jazz surveys and
seminars in jazz history. In addition, the Institute for Studies in American
Music regularly invites distinguished jazz performers and scholars to campus.
Recent guest performers and lecturers have included Randy Weston, Paquito
D’Rivera, Leroy Jenkins, Vijay Iyer, Miya Masaoka, Jason Kao Hwang,
Matana Roberts, Aaron Stewart, Hakim Jami, and Elliot Humberto Kavee. Other
guests have included Robin D. G. Kelley (Professor of Anthropology and Jazz
Studies at Columbia University), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Director, Institute
for Research in African American Studies and Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, Columbia University), and composer and violinist
Jason Kao Hwang (founder of The Far East Side Band and composer of the
chamber opera The Floating Box). Guest speakers in Spring 2005 will include
George E. Lewis (Edwin H. Case Professor of Music, Columbia
University) and Prof. Sherrie Tucker (Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor of
Jazz Studies, Columbia University, and Associate Professor of American
Studies, University
of Kansas).
Faculty
Bios
Jeffrey Taylor
Salim Washington
Jazz-related
events at Brooklyn
College
Upcoming
events
Recent
events
Calypso in New York and the Atlantic World
A Conference
Music in Polycultural America
Fall 2004 Speakers Series
Articles
and reviews published in the ISAM Newsletter
Robin Kelley, In a Mist: Thoughts on Ken Burns’s
Jazz , Spring 2001
Robin Kelley, Brooklyn’s Jazz Renaissance, Spring
2004
David G. Pier, More News from Nowhere, review of The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz,
Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, ed. Daniel Fischlin
and Ajay Heble (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) Fall 2004
Jeff Taylor, Life With Fatha, Fall 2000
Jeff Taylor, Celebrating Jelly Roll, Spring 2002,
review of Oh, Mr. Jelly: A Jelly
Roll Morton Scrapbook (Copenhagen: JazzMedia, 1999), Spring 2002
Mark Tucker, Behind the Beat, Spring 2003
Salim Washington, Meditations on Coltrane’s
Legacy, Spring 2002
Salim Washington, Review of Eric Porter’s What is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists,
Critics, and Activists (University of California Press, 2002; $22.50)
Eric Porter’s What Is This Thing Called Jazz?, Fall 2003
For more information on studying jazz at Brooklyn
College, please contact Prof. Salim Washington at
wsalimwashington@aol.com.
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