Sherrie Tucker
University of Kansas
Sherrie Tucker (Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas) is a contributing editor and co-author for the collaboratively created Open Access book entitled, Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) (University of Michigan Press, Music and Social Justice Series, 2024). AUMI has a long history with Guelph! She is also the author of Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (Duke, 2014), Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s (Duke, 2000) and co-editor, with Nichole T. Rustin, of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Duke, 2008). She was a member of the Jazz Study Group and a Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at the Center of Jazz Studies at Columbia in 2024-2025, and a member of research initiatives: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP) and International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). She co-edits the Music and Culture Series at Wesleyan University Press with Deborah Wong and Jeremy Wallach. She enjoys jamming and performing on the AUMI with her bandmates in the Pre-Pandemic Ensemble (PPE) based in Lawrence Kansas.
