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| NYC Jazz Journalism Conference The Jazz Journalists Association announced its participation in “Jazz in the Global Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture,” an international conference of jazz journalists presented by Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies, on Saturday, September 29, 2007, in the Lecture Hall of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street) in New York City. The event is free and open to the public. The conference--the first ever in the United States to gather senior, mid-career and emerging jazz-oriented media professionals from around the world in discussions of globalization and new technologies--comprises six panel discussions, as well as a JJA reception (invitees only) on Friday, September 28 at the Lenox Lounge, 288 Lenox Ave. (between 124 and 125th Streets), co-sponsored by ASCAP and Boosey & Hawkes music publishers, featuring pianist Roberto Rodriguez's trio and a send-off brunch on Sunday, September 30 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The JJA also will hold a live, globally interactive blog from and about the conference at Jazzhouse.org, and is currently investigating simultaneous webcasts of the panels. Thirty jazz journalists from Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and Turkey, as well as the United States, will speak in moderated 90-minute sessions on “The Global and the Local,” “Systems of Production and Consumption,” “Globalizing the Personal,” “New Music, New Aesthetics,” “Journalism and History,” and “Jazz in the Global Imaginary.” The conference is curated by George E. Lewis, Case Professor of American Music at Columbia Universityand Director of the Center for Jazz Studies, in close consultation with JJA president Howard Mandel. Lewis is a trombonist, electronic music composer-improvisor, and author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. JJA members participating include Seda Binbasgil (Turkey), Alain Derbez (Mexico), James Hale (Ottawa), Ashante Infantry (Toronto), Francisco Martinelli (Italy), Cyril Moshkow (Russia), Kazue Yokoi (Tokyo) as well as Marcela Breton, Francis Davis, Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, Ron Scott, John Szwed and Ted Panken, all from the United States. Participants not officially unaffiliated with the JJA include Gwen Ansell (South Africa), Christian Broecking (Germany), Alex Dutilh (France), Andy Hamilton (UK), Patrik Landolt (Switzerland), Alexander Pierrepont (France), Maxi Sickert (Germany), Bert Vuisje (Netherlands), Lars Westin (Sweden), and Jason Berry, June Cross, Stanley Crouch, Jennifer Odell, Ben Ratliff, Bill Shoemaker, Greg Tate, K. Leander Williams and George Varga. Jazz in the Global Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture is the culminating event of the Columbia/Harlem Festival of Global Jazz, which takes place from Wednesday, September 19 through Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. The Festival, which is presented by Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies in partnership with Jazzmobile, Inc., and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, will feature leading national and international musicians, journalists, and scholars in performances, conferences, symposia, film screenings, and technology-based community events, all open to the public. Complete schedule of the Columbia Harlem Festival of Global Jazz. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |