The Online Program of events for the 2023 AMS & SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Jazz, 1900–Present, African American / Black Studies, Pedagogy / Education, AMS
Presentations
Histories of Pedagogy/Pedagogies of History
Chair(s): Darren Mueller (Eastman School of Music)
Discussant(s): Kenneth Prouty (Michigan State University)
Organized by the AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group
This session will explore the relationship between jazz education and jazz historiography through a series of short talks followed by an open discussion. Darren Mueller (Eastman School of Music) will introduce the panel with a reflection on the performance and pedagogy of trumpet player Ron Miles, a prominent figure on the Denver scene who passed away in 2022. Local pianist, composer, and educator Annie Booth (University of Denver) will discuss her advocacy projects supporting gender inclusivity in jazz education. Her SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop offers a unique mentoring and pedagogical model that has proven successful in retention and participation of young women and non-binary musicians playing jazz. She also leads the recently launched Brava Jazz Publishing Company, a project designed to support and champion women composers and arrangers in the field of big band jazz by providing a platform for their work to be widely distributed. Jennifer Ye Ji Cho (University of California, Berkeley) will discuss the early moments of jazz academization in 20th-century Los Angeles and Oakland, focusing on how individuals navigated race, socio-politics, and institutional borders in academic spaces. As a major Great Migration destination and the “Harlem of the West,” respectively, the two California cities offer invaluable stories of West Coast jazz academia and informal paths to institutionalization. Christi Jay Wells (Arizona State University) will detail the history of the Institutes in Jazz Criticism held jointly by the Smithsonian Institution and the Music Critics Association in the mid-1970s to train upcoming critics in jazz aesthetics and approaches to writing about the music. Attendees included a number of people who would become very influential in jazz education and the construction of jazz histories, including Gary Giddins, Bob Blumenthal, Stanley Crouch, Ron Welburn, and J.R. Taylor. Jazz pedagogy researcher Ken Prouty (Michigan State University) will provide a response to open the discussion.
Presentations of the Symposium
The Performance and Pedagogy of Ron Miles
Darren Mueller Eastman School of Music
please see abstract
Supporting Gender Inclusivity in Jazz Education
Annie Booth University of Denver
Please see abstract.
Jazz and Academization in Los Angeles and Oakland, California
Jennifer Ye Ji Cho University of California, Berkeley
