Center for Jazz Studies
Visiting
Scholars for 2009-10
Anne Dvinge
Sara Villa
Dr. Dvinge received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Copenhagen in 2007 with the dissertation, Between History and Hearsay: Imagining Jazz at the Turn of the 21st Century. Currently a Danish Research Council for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Department for Arts and Cultural Studies, Dr. Dvinge will be conducting research for her post-doctoral project, “Jazz, A Cosmopolitan Vernacular: National and Transnational Narratives of Identity and Tradition.” This ethnographically oriented research project, based on case studies of jazz festivals in North America and Europe, projects the jazz festival as a symbolic space where local, national and transnational identities and claims of belonging are negotiated by local and visiting jazz musicians.
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Dr. Villa s a postdoctoral fellow in a joint program between the Center for Jazz Studies and the State University of Milan, where she received her PhD in 2008. Her research project is dedicated to Jack Kerouac’s manuscripts on jazz, from his juvenile articles dedicated to Glenn Miller and Count Basie to the more mature production of essays on bebop and cool jazz. Dr. Villa is the translator into Italian of Windblown World (Kerouac’s journals), and the editor of a forthcoming collection of Kerouac’s music and writings. She is also the author of articles on Virginia Woolf, and on Anglo-American contemporary cinema. Her monograph on Woolf’s Orlando (I due Orlando: dal romanzo di Virginia Woolf all’adattamento cinematografico di Sally Potter/Two Orlandos: From Virginia Woolf’s Novel to Sally Potter’s Film Adaptation) has recently been published by CUEM, Milan.
George E. Lewis
receives
2009 American Book Award
Recent Books by Center for Jazz Studies Faculty
Clawing at the Limits of Cool:
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington
Thomas Dunne Books, 2008
Clawing at the Limits of Cool is the first book to focus on Davis and Coltrane's musical interaction and its historical context, on the ways they influenced each other and the tremendous impact they've had on culture since then. It chronicles the drama of their collaboration, from their initial historic partnership to the interlude of their breakup, during which each man made tremendous progress toward his personal artistic goals. And it continues with the last leg of their journey together, a time when the Miles Davis group, featuring John Coltrane, forever changed the landscape of jazz... more
A Power Stronger Than Itself:
The AACM and American Experimental Music
George E. Lewis
University of Chicago Press, 2008
Winner, American Book Award 2009
"Best Book on Jazz 2009"--Jazz Journalists Association
Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. From its working-class roots on the South Side of Chicago, the AACM went on to forge an extensive legacy of cultural and social experimentation, crossing both musical and racial boundaries. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images... more
Performing Latin Music in New York City
Christopher Washburne
Temple University Press, 2008
This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider, and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances...more
