Course Name: Jazz in Europe - European Jazz
Columbia University, Department of Music
Instructor: Wolfram Knauer, Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor, Spring 2008
Time: Tuesday, Thursday, 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Course Number: 72600
Points: 3 points
Course Type: Lecture / Seminar
Bulletin Description:
Columbia University
Anthropology, African-American Studies, and American Studies
Fall 2005
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Regular attendance and full participation in the seminar, including a short presentation (15 minutes) in one session
Read the three assigned texts and the xeroxed readings
Write two short papers (3-5 pages)
1) comparing two histories OR two textbooks on jazz chosen from the list on pp. 320-321 of Jazz 101 or in consultation with the instructor
Berea College
Fall 2004
University of Kansas
American Studies
Fall 2006
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton talks about his connections to an earlier, submerged mainstream jazz "tradition" of the 1940s and ‘50s and speaks eloquently of the music that inspired him.
Miller argues that Caribbean music is central to the emergence and development of jazz. The Caribbean islands were a crucial transfer point to the mainland United States for African rhythms and musical forms from the beginning of the slave trade until the present. Caribbean music was especially important in the development of jazz in New Orleans, America's Caribbean city.
Ulanov explores the early career of the pianist/composer in order to ask what the roots of his prodigious talent may be.
