JAZZ

At the Center for Jazz Studies (CJS), jazz is a music without borders, providing innovative models for scholarship and teaching in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Scholars associated with the CJS continue to contribute to a field announced by founding Director, Robert G. O'Meally, in the title to the groundbreaking anthology he co-edited with Farah Jasmine Griffin and Brent Hayes Edwards, Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies. The CJS continues to pursue the rich interdisciplinary "new jazz studies'" discussion initiated by Uptown Conversations, which transformed debates in and out of the academy, the nightclub, the concert hall, and the recording studio about the music, the musicians, and the larger cultural context in which they sounded out their ideas, passions, and aspirations... A guiding premise at the CJS is that the study of jazz presents more than a new animating paradigm for scholarly inquiry in the humanities and the arts, or in the social, political, and natural..

Primary location: United States