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PROGRAM
"what’s avant-garde about the avant-garde?"
The Fourth Annual
Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Colloquium
University of Kansas
March 30 and 31, 2007
| FRIDAY | MARCH 30, 2007 | Alderson Auditorium |
| 9:00-9:15 | WELCOME | Chuck Berg, KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group |
| Paul D’Anieri, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas | ||
| 9:15-10:00 | OPENING ADDRESS | Kevin Whitehead, University of Kansas, “'Death to the Avant-Garde' Revisited" |
| 10:15-11:00 | SOUND GRAMMAR | Chair - Kevin Fellezs, University of California Merced |
Pete Williams, University of Kansas, "Ornette on Ornette: Harmolodics and Speech Acts" |
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| Charity Chan, Mills College, "Is Anything Different? Hearing the 'Herald' of Contemporary Improvisation" | ||
| 11:15-12:15 | HAPPENING | Glenn Weyant, Sound-sculptor, "Grass Roots Avant-Garde: The Instrument IS the Message" |
| 2:10-3:10 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
Fred Ho, Composer, performer, author, activist and founder of the Afro-Asian Ensemble (1982), "IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE! Perpetuating the Avant-Garde in African American Music" |
| 3:30-4:15 | TRIPTYCH | Chair – Jeffrey Taylor, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York |
| Scott Currie, New York University, "Visions of the Tone World, Improvisation as Freiraum: A Tale of Two Jazz Avant-Gardes" | ||
| Benjamin Piekut, Columbia University, "Gender and the New Thing: the Case of the Jazz Composers Guild" | ||
| 5:30-6:30 | CONCERT Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium |
Fred Ho, Composer, performer, author, activist and founder of the Afro-Asian Ensemble (1982) Solo Baritone Saxophone and dialogue with the audience. Concert and dialogue are free and open to the public. Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU Center for Research, the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art. |
| SATURDAY | MARCH 31, 2007 | Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union |
| 10:00-11:00 | PICTURING THE NEW | Chair – Roberta Freund Schwartz, University of Kansas |
| Stuart Davis, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities "From 1940s France to 1960s Brazil: Appropriating Musique Concrète as Soundtrack Strategy in Rogério Sganzerla’s O Bandido de Luz Vermelha" |
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| Chuck Berg, University of Kansas "Jazz and the Avant-Garde Film: The Cases of Daylight Express (1953) and Bridges-Go-Round (1959)" |
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| 11:15-12:15 | LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION |
Ursel Schlicht, Ramapo College of New Jersey |
| 12:30-1:30 | REFLECTIONS | Kevin Whitehead, University of Kansas |
Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas |
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And Colloquium Participants |
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| 1:40 | FAREWELL REMARKS | Crystal Anderson, KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group |
All Events are Free and Open to the Public FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Sherrie Tucker, American Studies: : sjtucker@ku.edu co-directors: Crystal Anderson, American Studies and Chuck Berg, Theatre and Film Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU Center for Research, Hall Center for the Humanities, and Spencer Museum of Art. |
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