Presentations

2006

“They Got Corns for Their Country: Hollywood Canteen Hostesses as Subjects and Objects of Freedom,” School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison. March 31. Invited speaker.

“Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity,” School of Music, McGill University, Montreal. March 24. Invited speaker.

“They Got Corns for Their Country: Hollywood Canteen Hostesses as Subjects and Objects of Freedom,” Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, McGill University, Montreal. March 23. Invited speaker.

2005

“Jazz and Desire: What Does Jazz Studies Want?” Jazz Study Group, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, New York, October 15. Invited speaker.

“Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity,” Jazz Roundtable Series, Institute for Jazz Studies, Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey. October, 13. Invited speaker.

“’They Got Corns for the Country’: Hollywood Canteen Hostesses as Subjects and Objects of Freedom,” Word on Music Symposium, Duke University, September 10. Invited speaker.

“Gender: A Useful Category for Jazz Studies” and “Teaching Jazz History with Women in it,” NEH Summer Institute, Teaching Jazz as American Culture (directed by Gerald Early), Washington University, St. Louis. July 25-26. Invited speaker.

“Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The Subjectless Subject of New Jazz Studies,” Creative Music Think Tank, Vancouver Jazz Festival, June 27. Keynote speaker.

“They Got Corns for Their Country: Hollywood Canteen Hostesses as Subjects and Objects of Freedom,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,” Scripps College, Claremont, California. June 5. Conference paper.

“Gendering the Jazz Wars,” Institute for Studies in American Music, Music in Polycultural America Lecture Series. Brooklyn College, April 14, 2005. Invited speaker.

“Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The Subjectless Subject of New Jazz Studies,” Leeds International Jazz Conference, England. March 11. Keynote speaker.

“Music, Performance, and the Racial Imagination,” Graduate Student Conference, New York University, March 4. Commentator.

“Dance Floor Democracy: Remembering the Hollywood Canteen,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas. February 28. Invited speaker.

“Working the Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands During World War II,” Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Moscow, Idaho. February 25. Invited speaker.

2004

“Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen,” Community Studies and American Studies Departments, Dickinson College. December 3. Invited speaker.

“’They Got Corns For Their Country’: Hollywood Canteen Hostesses as Subjects and Objects of Freedom,” American Studies Association, Atlanta. November 13. Conference paper.

“When Good Girls Go Trad: Making a Lady Out of the Jazz Wars. The White Female Singer in New Orleans (1947),” Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, September 8. Conference paper.

“Gender: A Useful Category of Jazz Studies,” University of Vermont. February 24. Invited speaker.

2003

“When Subjects Don’t Come Out,” Gay and Lesbian Study Group, American Musicological Association, Houston, November 14. Invited speaker.

“Gender: A Useful Category for Jazz Studies,” Jazz Historiography and the Political Economy of Jazz, Meeting of the Jazz Study Group, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, New York. October 11. Invited speaker.

“Working the Swing Shift: Effects of World War II on ‘All-Girl’ Bands,” Oklahoma State University, September 17. Invited speaker.

“Listening to the World War II Era,” Feminist Theory and Music VII, Bowling Green, Ohio, July 20. Panel chair.

“Outside American Studies,” Dartmouth Summer Institute, June 17-22. Workshop participant.

“Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 18. Conference paper.

Oral History Workshop and public lecture, Central Missouri State University, March 20. Workshop leader and invited speaker.

“Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity,” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, February 11. Invited speaker.

2002

“Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity,” Modernist Studies Association, Madison, November 1, 2002. Conference paper.

“National Aesthetics and the Claims of ‘Universal Modernity’” Negotiating with Imperial Authority in the Philippines, Korea, and Mexico between the World Wars,” Modernist Studies Association, Madison, November 1. Panel chair.

“Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity,” Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, September 6. Conference paper.

“Swing Shift: ‘All-Girl’ Bands of the 1940s,” New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Visitors Center, New Orleans, June 22, 2002. Invited speaker.

“Performing Politics: Women, Culture and National Identity,” Twelfth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,” Storrs, Connecticut, June 8. Commentator.

“The Prairie View Co-eds, Exemplars of Excellence!” Founders Day and Honors Convocation, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, March 27. Convocation address.

“Nobody’s Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm,” Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland, March 22, 2002. Invited speaker.

“Women and Jazz,” panel with Angela Davis, Maria Schneider, Mary Watkins, and Susie Ibarra, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco, California, March 19. Invited panelist.

“Genders and Sexualities in American Popular Music” and “Screening American Music,” roundtables, Society for American Music, Lexington, Kentucky, March 7. Invited panelist.

“Placing Popular Music: Nation, Diaspora, Citizenship,” Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. February 25. Invited speaker.

“Modernity and Leisure Culture in the United States,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, January 5. Commentator.

“Improvising Womanhood, or a Conundrum is a Woman: Performances of Gender and Race by African American Women Jazz Musicians, 1920-50,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, January 4. Conference paper.

2001

“Democracy on the Dance Floor: Gender, Race, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen,” Music of the Americas panel, American Studies Association, Washington DC. November 10. Conference paper.

“Bordering on Community: Alternate Takes on Women-in-Jazz,” Guelph Jazz Festival, September 6. Keynote speaker.

“All-Woman Swing Bands,” Schubert Performing Arts Center “You Got Swing” intergenerational arts and education project for high school students and senior citizens. New Haven, Connecticut, May 7. Invited speaker.

“‘All-Girl’ Bands of the 1940s,” Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, May 7. Invited speaker.
“Girl Power: All Women Swing Bands,” American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, March 10. Invited panelist.

“Swing Shift: ‘All-Girl’ Bands of the 1940s,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, February 25. Invited speaker.

“Uplift and Downbeats: If Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds,” International Association of Jazz Educators, New York, New York, January 13. Conference paper.

2000

“Uplift and Downbeats: If Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds,” Revamping Jazz History Lecture Series, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, New York, November 14. Invited lecture.

“Historically Black Colleges and ‘All-Girl’ Bands: What if Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds?” Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections multi-organization music conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 3, 2000. Conference paper/panel organizer.

“‘We Were Something Else!’ ‘All-Girl’ Bands and the Boundaries of Jazz History,” American Music at the Millennium: Race/Ethnicity/Culture Colloquium Series, Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, New York, October 18. Invited lecture.

“‘Ethnic’ Music, Gendered Performances,” Music of the Americas Caucus Panel, American Studies Association, Detroit, Michigan, October 13. Commentator.

1999

"'Nobody's Sweethearts': Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm," Feminist Theory and Music 5, London, England, July 8. Conference paper.

"Women in Jazz," Jazz On Film Festival, Denver, Colorado, February 14. Invited panelist.

1998

"Big Ears: Listening to Gender in Jazz Studies," American Studies Association, Seattle,Washington, November 22. Conference paper.

"Nobody's Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm," History of Consciousness Colloquium Series, October 15. Speaker.

1997

"Internationalism and the Sweethearts of Rhythm,” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 31. Conference paper.

"Jazz, Blues, R & B, and Rock and Roll Round Table," Oral History Association, New Orleans, September 25, 1997. Moderator.

"The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Passing for Integrated, Passing for Segregated in the 1940s and 1980s." Guelph Jazz Festival, Ontario, Canada, September 5. Conference paper.

"Women in Jazz," with trumpet player Clora Bryant. California Jazz Institute, California State University, Long Beach, April 7. Invited speaker.

1996

“Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band," Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto, November 1. Conference paper.

“West Coast Women,” Oral History Association, Philadelphia, October 12.

"Female Big Bands, Male Mass Audiences: A Temporary Wartime Alliance," Conference on Popular Music, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, March 30. Conference paper.

“Female Big Bands, Male Mass Audiences: A Temporary Wartime Alliance,” Sonneck Society for American Music, Washington, D.C., March 24. Conference paper.

1995

"West Coast Jazzwomen,” Western Association of Women Historians, Pacific Grove, California, June 4. Conference paper.

"Music as Popular Cultural Production," Performing Cultural Studies/Scening Cultural Practices, 9th Annual Graduate Student Cultural Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 22. Panel moderator.

"West Coast Jazzwomen," Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern and Northern California, Santa Barbara, February 25. Conference paper.

1994

"'It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't in the Discourse': Constructing a Narrative for All-Woman Jazz and Swing Bands of the 1940s," Society for Ethnomusicology, Northern California, Berkeley, September 17. Conference paper.

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