The third annual Rhythm Changes conference starts on 4 September … in Amsterdam … and I’m delighted to have been involved as a member of the organising committee, led by the very wonderful Prof Walter van de Leur. Here is the draft schedule of events, while below—why not?—is a list of all the papers, talks and events, in alphabetical order of speaker’s name. Almost one hundred … that’s impressive. really, for an international conference dedicated to the music we call jazz.
- Lisa Barg – “Composer-Arranger-Seamstress?”: Melba Liston, Gender, Arranging, and Jazz History – McGill University
- Andrew Berish – What is jazz supposed to feel like?: Tin Pan Alley, Sentimentality and Jazz – Associate Professor, Humanities and Cultural Studies Dept., University of South Florida
- Nathan Blustein – Erwin Schulhoff’s Cinq études and European Jazz in the 1920s – PhD Candidate, Department of Music Theory, Indiana University
- Matthew Boden – Swingin’ Down Under: The Barrelhouse Four – PhD Candidate, Lecturer in Jazz and Classical Studies, Conservatorium of Music, Tasmanian College of the Arts
- David Brackett – Swing in the 1940s: Probing the Borders of Jazz and Pop – McGill University
- Darius Brubeck – Cultural Diplomacy – Former Director of the Centre for Jazz & Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Christa Bruckner-Haring – “Musik war es sicher nicht, was diese Herren boten, sie machten ein Heidenspektakel”: Early Jazz Reception in Austria after World War I – Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz (KUG), Austria
- Robert Burke – Analysis and observations of pre-learnt and idiosyncratic elements in improvisation: a reflective study in jazz performance – Head of The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Coordinator of Jazz and Popular Music, JMonash University
- Jerome Camal – Jazz and Gwoka: A Diasporic Polyrhythm? – Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Gretchen Carlson – Jazz Heaven”: Woody Allen’s Jazz Compilation Soundtracks and Cultural Subtexts – PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
- Jean Cook – Jazz Research – Mapping the Field under the Jazz Futures heading (round-table discussion)
- Pedro Cravinho – Free Jazz, Free Portugal: Sounds of Freedom During the Last Years of the Estado Novo Regime (1971-1974) – University of Aveiro
- Kinga Csizmas – Hungarian jazz musicians (Poster) – Corvinus University of Budapest
- Scott Currie – Between Noise and (N)ostalgia: A Berlin Jazz Collective’s Challenge to Post-Transition Borders of Geography and Generation – University of Minnesota
- Lindelwa Dalamba – Kongi’s Harvest: Jazz and the Rituals of a Postcolonial World – University of the Witwatersrand
- Lawrence Davies – ‘These people know more about me than I do’: Robert Lockwood’s Histories of the Blues – King’s College London
- Scott DeVeaux – Reclaiming Fusion – Professor, McIntire Dept. of Music, Director of Undergraduate Programs, University of Virginia
- José Dias – ‘Unity in Diversity’: Jazz and the European narrative – PhD Candidate, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Frédéric Döhl – …a tremendous dividing line: About André Previns Experiences with Changeovers between Jazz and Art Music – Freie Universität Berlin
- Mario Dunkel – W. C. Handy, Edward Abbe Niles, and the Invention of Hot Jazz – Department of Music and Musicology Technische Universität Dortmund
- Anne Dvinge – Jazz carnival or Business Empire? The Change from the Local Newport Jazz Festival to the Global JVC Jazz Festival – Independent Researcher
- Alison Eales – ‘Jazz, Blues, (Reggae), Funk, Soul, World’: Programming and Promoting Glasgow (International) Jazz Festival- PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow
- Jonathan Eato – A Climbing Vine Through Concrete: Jazz in 1960s Apartheid South Africa – University of York
- Damian Evans – Scene and Unseen: Negotiation and contestation within a jazz scene – PhD Candidate, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Roger Fagge – “Is there a new art form somewhere here or is the western mind breaking down?”: British writers respond to jazz post 1945 (Panel sponsored by The University of Chicago Press) – Director, Comparative American Studies, Department of History, University of Warwick
- Steven Feld – Keynote. (Sponsored by Birmingham City University) – Distinguished porfessor of Antrhopology and Music, University of New Mexico
- Kevin Fellesz – Polishing the Ivories: Re-Thinking “Jazz Piano” (Panel) – Assistant Professor of Music, Institute for Research in African American Studies Columbia University
- Raphael Ferreira – The issue of style in the music of Hermeto Pascoal – Federal University of Uberlândia
- Petter Frost Fadnes – Improvisational conduct and case studies from the margins: An insider’s view on negotiating the collective- Department of Music and Dance, University of Stavanger
- Andy Fry – “This is Jazz”: New Orleans Jazz Revival in International Perspective – King’s College, London
- Jamie Fyffe – Signifyin(g) the Blues: The Compositional Style of Miles Davis (Poster) – University of Glasgow
- John Gabriel – Hanns Eisler and Motorik: Expanding the Borders of Jazz’s Influence on German Music – PhD Candidate, Harvard University
- Nicholas Gebhardt – Must We Mean What We Play? (With Apologies to Stanley Cavell) (Panel sponsored by The University of Chicago Press) – Birmingham City University
- John Gennari- Keynote. Rethinking Jazz and Jazz Studies through Jason Moran’s Multimedia Performance. (Sponsored by The Open University UK) – Associate Professor, University of Vermont
- Zbigniew Granat – A Quest for a Pan-European Identity: Komeda, Berendt, and the Politics of a “Sweet European Home” – Assistant Professor, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York
- Martin Guerpin – Between Cocteau, dada and neoclassicism: The carnivalesque role of jazz in French art music (1919-1922)- PhD Candidate, Université Paris-Sorbonne / Université de Montréal
- David Harnish & Jeremy Wallach – Dance to Your Roots: Border-Crossing with Krakatau, Indonesia’s Jazz-Gamelan Fusion Band (joint paper) – Chair and Professor, Music Department, University of San Diego
- Charles Hersch – “Matzo Balls-ereenie”: Ethnic Hybridity in African American Jazz Versions of Jewish Songs – Professor, Department of Political Science, Cleveland State University
- Monika Herzig – Jazz Research – Mapping the Field under the Jazz Futures heading (round-table discussion) – Jazz Pianist & Professor, Indiana University Jazz Education Network (JEN);
- Matthias Heyman – “And the Winner is…”: The Role of the Jazz Contest in Interbellum Belgium – PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp
- Iván Iglesias – Jazz and Social Revolution in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) – University of Valladolid
- Ole Izard Høyer – When Danish jazz became “Danish” – Assistant Prof., Department of Culture and Global Studies, Centre for Danish Jazz Studies
- Adil Johan – The Cosmopolitan Jazz Hero: Negotiating Class, Gender, Modernity and an Emerging Nation in 1960s Malay Films – PhD Candidate in Music Research, King’s College London
- Michael Kahr – Jazz Beyond the Borders of the Islamic Republic of Iran- Institute für Jazz und Jazzforschung
- Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz
- Peter Keppy – The quest for modern womanhood: Filipina flappers,bailerina’s and beauty queens. – NIOD Institute for War-, Holocaust-, and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
- Bob Lawson-Peebles – The Meaning of Jazz and the Assault on Maidenhead – Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter
- David Lee – New York, Modernism and the Artists Jazz Band- PhD Candidate, School of English & Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
- Steven Lewis – Marsalis Plays Bolden: Wynton Marsalis and the First Man of Jazz- PhD Candidate, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia
- Mark Lomanno – ‘Tinged with Imminence’: Improvising Translation and Performing Jazz Research – Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Ethnomusicology and Jazz Studies, Swarthmore College
- Andrea Low – Ernest Kaai & A Night in Honolulu – Jazz, Race and Empire in the Asia Pacific Region 1919-1937 – PhD Candidate, University of Auckland
- Francesco Martinelli – A Night in Tunesia or the hidden link: the influence of Islamic music and culture on the birth and development of jazz- Director of the Siena Jazz Archive; History of Jazz professor at Leghorn Conservatory
- Kristin McGee – Popular jazz, digital aesthetics and transnational networks in the New Europe – Associate Professor of Popular Music, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- George McKay – Carnivalising the creative economy: a short film about co-produced research, on and with British jazz festivals – University of Salford
- Haftor Medbøe – Dictated dichotomies: Locating Scandinavian jazz – Jazz Musician in Residence, Lecturer in Composition, School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University
- Vincent Meelberg – Composing Instantly: Conceiving Musical Improvisation as Compositional Practice – Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Cultural Studies
- Pedro Mendes – “Our main struggle was to create conditions to be professional jazz musicians”: the beginning of the Hot Clube de Portugal’s School of Jazz and the idea of becoming a “professional jazz musician” – INET-MD Institut of Ethnomusicology. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Cyril Moshkow – Jazz Journalism in Russia: From Underground To Reservation In Sixty Years – Jazz.Ru Magazine
- Ben Norton – Dealing with #BAM: Nicholas Payton and Jazz Studies. (Poster) – University of Hull, School of Drama, Music and Screen (Music)
- Ben Phipps – Constructing the role of the bass player in jazz history: From foundation to artistic expression. – PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales
- Acácio Piedade – Topics in Brazilian Jazz: friction of musicalities and rhetoricity (Panel sponsored by The University of Chicago Press) – Music Dept Music Graduate Studies, University of the State of Santa Catarina
- Nicolas Pillai – Len Lye’s A Colour Box: jazz, paint and cinematic waste – University of Warwick
- Ari Poutiainen – Instruments in Margin: Comparison of Flute, Violin and More Common Jazz Instruments – University lecturer of music education
- Ken Prouty – “Minstrel Hokum” and “Practical Jazzes”: Tailgate Trombone, Popular Music, and the Elusiveness of Jazz History – Associate Professor, Area Chair, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Michigan State University
- Sarah C. Provost – Bringing Something New: Creativity, Inspiration, and Female Jazz Performers – Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of North Florida
- Bruce Raeburn – Reflections of Senegambia in New Orleans Jazz – Hogan Jazz Archive & Tulane University
- Heli Reimann – ‘Neither allowed nor forbidden’: paradoxes of Soviet society and conceptualization of jazz – University of Helsinki
- Jason Robinson – Improvising diaspora: tradition and expansion in the gnawa collaborations of Pharoah Sanders, Randy Weston, and Archie Shepp – Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Amherst College
- Alex W. Rodriguez – Chile’s “La Resistencia” and Transnational Jazz Practice – PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
- Johanna-Marie Rohlf – Sitting on the fence? Early Jazz in Berlin and Paris – PhD Candidate, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin (CMS)
- Pedro Roxo & Miguel Lourenço – Crossing Mind and Geographic Borders but Fixing Jazz Music Boundaries: The Foundation of Hot Clube de Portugal in the late 40s. – INET-MD Institut of Ethnomusicology. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Loes Rusch – Jazz Behind the Dikes to New Dutch Swing: Critics and the Emancipation of Jazz in the Netherlands – University of Amsterdam
- Jean-Michel Saint-Paul – Bending New Corners (1999) of Erik Truffaz. The influence of hip hop in jazz music and how an acoustic quartet sounds as an electric group. – University of Paris VIII Saint-Denis
- Fritz Schenker – Revisiting jazz latitude: Filipino musicians and empire in 1920’s colonial Asia – PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Ursel Schlicht – SonicExchange: Music Beyond Categories – Pianist
- Floris Schuiling – On the borders of modernism: The Instant Composers Pool between Free Jazz, Darmstadt and Fluxus – PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
- Nathan Seinen – Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly as jazz-rock de-fusion and historical critique – Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tamar Sella – A Link in the Chain: Israeli Jazz Musicians and the Berklee College of Music – PhD Candidate, in ethnomusicology, Harvard University
- Alan Stanbridge – All the Rest is Propaganda: Jazz, Class, and Race in British New Wave Cinema – Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto
- Paul Steinbeck- Hyperinteractivity: George Lewis’s Voyager, Improvisation, and the Frontiers of Analysis – Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis
- Yoko Suzuki – Polishing the Ivories: Re-Thinking “Jazz Piano” (Panel) – Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
- Tom Sykes – Redefining the borders? Jazz scenes and social media – University of Salford
- Catherine Tackley – Rhythm Clubs: Ideals and Realities – Senior Lecturer in Music, The Open University
- Jeffrey Taylor – Polishing the Ivories: Re-Thinking “Jazz Piano” (Panel) – Professor, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
- Walter van de Leur – “When I Die, You Better Second Line”: Jazz and Death – Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music, Conservatorium van Amsterdam & University of Amsterdam
- Mischa van Kan – Swedish Modern: from furniture to jazz – PhD Candidate, Gothenburg University
- Tim Wall – The line between jazz and not-jazz: music broadcasting and the BBC 1923 to 1953- Birmingham City University
- Hans Weisethaunet – Enter the Recording Studio: ECM recordings as artistic expression and cultural practice – Professor, University of Oslo
- Meredith K. White – Jazz musician as insider-outsider – Senior Lecturer in Music, Kingston University, Surrey
- Tony Whyton – On Jazz and Cultural Diplomacy: A Conversation between Darius Brubeck and Tony Whyton – University of Salford
- Iwan Wopereis – Boundary crossing in improvisational expertise development – PhD Candidate, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands
- Toby Wren – Jazz mutants in the antipodes – Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
- Brian F. Wright – “All You Get is an Amplified Plink-Plonk”: Monk Montgomery, the Electric Bass, and Policing Aesthetic Boundaries in 1950s Jazz- PhD Candidate, Musicology, Case Western Reserve University
- Juan Zagalaz – Paco de Lucía and the impact of jazz in the renovation of flamenco (1978 – 1990) – Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha
- Per Zanussi – Composing for improvisors – Research Fellow at University of Stavanger, Dept of Music and Dance