Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/08/2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
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We are excited to inform you that the Jazz-Blues research group’s “Music and the Written Word” one-day conference will be held on BYU campus on Friday, December 8th. Our keynote speaker that day will be Todd Williams, formerly the saxophonist and clarinetist of the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Septet, and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and currently Assistant Professor of Music Education at Indiana Wesleyan University. Todd will deliver a talk in the afternoon concerning his current research, and later in the evening he’ll be playing at our annual public humanities event, Navidad Azul.
MUSIC AND THE WRITTEN WORD
Brigham Young University
December 8, 2017
| Time | Session |
| 10:00-10:10 | Opening Remarks Gregory Stallings, Brian Price Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB) |
| 10:10-10:50 | Blues and Rap, Modern and Ancient “Rap as Rebellion: Tupac Shakur and the Rebirth of Túpac Amaru” Nathan Gordon, Brigham Young University “Mexico City’s King Creole: Parménides García Saldaña and Poetics of Blues Literature” Brian Price, Brigham Young University Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB) |
| 11:00-11:50 | “Joe McQueen and Betty Moore” Plenary speaker: Jans Wager, Utah Valley University Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB) |
| 12:00-2:00 | LUNCH |
| 2:00-2:50 | Literature, Jazz, Art “Milton and the Improvisation of Scripture” Jason Kerr, Brigham Young University “Boogie Woogie Modernism” Robert Colson, Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium (HBLL 1060) |
| 3:00-3:50 | “Setting Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York to Music” Gregory Stallings, Jonathan Cárdenas Stallings, Christian Asplund and GEM (Group for Experimental Music) Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium (HBLL 1060) |
| 4:00-4:50 | “Beyond the Symbolic/Improvisation: History, Poetry, Sound” Plenary speaker: Jaime Rodríguez-Matos, California State University Fresno Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium (HBLL 1060) |
| 5:00-6:00 | “Perceptions of Meaning in Jazz Listening” Keynote speaker: Todd Williams, Indiana Wesleyan University Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium (HBLL 1060) |
| 6:00-8:00 | DINNER |
| 8:00 | NAVIDAD AZUL: POETRY AND MUSIC Special guest: Todd Williams Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium (HBLL 1060) |
