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“Like A Cry You Wanted to Answer”
The School of Languages and Literatures and the History Department Public Lecture Series present Harald Kisiedu, “Like A Cry You Wanted to Answer”: Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and the Emergence of Jazz Experimentalism in East Germany.
ImprovNotes February 2016 Artist of the Month: Maggie Nicols
Maggie Nicols, born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1948, worked in popular music and jazz as a singer and dancer until, in 1968, she landed in London and began performing with…
Jazzing the Data in Review
Organized by the Columbia Center for Jazz Studies J-Disc task force, in partnership with IICSI, IPLAI, and the Schulich School of Music, Jazzing the Data proved the importance of collating and making available these vast expanses of discographical data in order to create new knowledge in the growing fields of Jazz Studies and Critical Studies in Improvisation.
George Lewis in Guelph
March 4th, 2016 | 3-5pm University of Guelph, MacKinnon 203 The Creative Music Symposium and Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series Present: How Do You Turn an Academic…
IICSI & Friends in Ottawa Concert
As part of the Canadian New Music Network’s 2016 Forum, Ottawa New Music Creators and Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture presented a unique improvisatory event at the…
CFP: McGill Colloquium 2016, Montreal QC
“If You Have to Ask”: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Neural Underpinnings of Improvisatory Behavior in the Arts and Beyond CALL FOR PAPERS IPLAI/IICSI McGill Colloquium McGill University, May 27-28, 2016…
CFP: UBC Colloquium 2016, Vancouver BC
Breathturns: Improvisation and Freedom June 25 – June 26 The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Coastal Jazz invite proposals for papers and presentations for our eighth colloquium…
CFP: 2016 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, Guelph ON
The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival and the University of Guelph, invites proposals for presentations at our annual interdisciplinary international conference. The…
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2016-17
Applications for the 2016-17 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program accepted until April 15, 2016. Please follow this link for more details: IICSI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016-17 Program Notice
Call for Submissions: Race, Sound, and Technology Issue
Call for Submissions Race, Sound, and Technology Issue Deadline: January 29, 2016 Current Musicology invites submissions for a special interdisciplinary issue on the intersections of race, sound, and technology. While…
