Dr Pedro Cravinho conference chair of Documenting Jazz 2020 guest posts on how the conference is shaping up.
''We are pleased to invite you to the second edition of the Documenting Jazz conference, which will take place on 16-18 January 2020 at Birmingham City University. Focused on this year’s theme, ways of documenting, it brings together delegates from across the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss proposals on jazz as visual culture, and its distinct representations: photography, press, cinema, television, and web. Additionally, the conference will address distinct ways of documenting jazz, challenging the narratives surrounding jazz as a male-dominated domain, and the way those affected have been marginalised from this music history. An important aim of this conference is to offer networking opportunities and foster debate among national and international participants around the conference theme. We very much look forward seeing you January in Birmingham.''
Keynote speakers are
Kristin McGee Gendering Jazz in Film and Television: Alternative Ways of Seeing and Hearing the Jazz Past Kristin McGee is associate professor in popular music studies in the arts, culture and media department at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She teaches on various subjects including popular music theory, jazz, gender and sexuality within popular music, music and globalisation, critical race theory, arts cultures, film music, and music event organization. She is also the current chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Benelux.''
Catherine Tackley Seeing Jazz: The Visual Documentation of Jazz in Interwar British Popular Culture Professor Catherine Tackley joined the University of Liverpool in August 2016 as head of the department of music, having worked previously at the Open University and Leeds College of Music. In 2018, Catherine curated ‘Rhythm and Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain’, an acclaimed exhibition in London based on her research. From 2012-2014 she was principal investigator of the AHRC Research Networking project ‘Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns.’ Click to register.
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