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Jazz, Criticism, and American Politics at Boston University Tsai Center
Courtesy of Caniato | Posted on April 6, 2012
Where
Boston University Tsai Center
685 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA
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When
Thu, April 12, 2012
8PM
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Jazz, Criticism & American Politics
Boston University, April 12 and 13, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Lewis Porter (Rutgers University)
The Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University in collaboration with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center will host an international conference, “Jazz, Criticism, and American Politics,” on April 12 and 13, 2012. The Gotlieb Archival Research Center houses several important collections spanning the history of American jazz in the twentieth century, from bandleaders Don Ellis and Cab Calloway, songwriters Sylvia Dee, Abel Meeropol, and Johnny Mercer, singer Ella Fitzgerald, to the writings of jazz historians and critics Andre Hodeir, Winthrop Sergeant, Henry Pleasants, Nat Hentoff, and Charles Keil....