Research Library
As part of our commitment to making our work and outputs accessible, and to generate further dialogue on the issues we explore, IICSI has created an online Research Library. Here you will find a range of pieces including films, articles, think pieces, and interviews. Please use the search function or browse, and check back again as this library will be updated regularly.
Research outcomes related to the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice project (2007-2013) are forthcoming.
2007 Colloquium Brochure
Colloquium brochure and schedule for the 2007 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium “People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is NOW!” held September 5–7 2007.
2008 Biographies and Abstracts
Biographies and abstracts for all speakers and presenters at the 2008 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium on Diaspora, Dispersal, Improvisation, and Imagination held September 3–5 2008.
2008 Colloquium Brochure
Colloquium brochure for the 2008 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium on “Diaspora, Dispersal, Improvisation, and Imagination” held September 3–5, 2008.
KEYNOTE: Improvisation in American Taiko
Dr. Deborah Wong discusses improvised solos in Japanese American drumming and their relationship to ideas about tradition and hybrid cultural identities. Gender is also a focal point of the talk, and numerous video examples of taiko performances are presented.
KEYNOTE: Jazz/Opera and the Staging of Race
While examining the presence of improvisatory practices in opera over the course of history, the Hutcheons discuss the ongoing hybridization of opera with other art forms, and how racial identities have been represented in opera.
KEYNOTE: Improvisation and Diaspora: Why New Orleans Matters
Dr. George Lipsitz discusses transcultural understanding and improvisation in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans in 2005.
KidsAbility 2008 Workshop Profile
A profile of a collaborative outreach project conducted throughout the summer of 2008 for youth with disabilities involving ICASP, KidsAbility, and the Guelph Jazz Festival.
Keynote Address at the Guelph Jazz Festival, 2007
Anthony Braxton gave the keynote address at the 2007 Guelph Jazz Festival and kindly let us video record it. Here we offer an edited transcription. Professor Braxton has also provided three supplementary charts, included as appendices, that help to explain his terminology and his system.
Oral Histories: Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton is a Black Canadian writer/poet, DJ, and historian, born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Compton has published two books of poetry: 49th Parallel Psalm, and Performance Bond. He has also edited an anthology, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, and recently a collection of essays entitled, After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region.
Oral Histories: George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is one of Canada’s most prolific poets. He is also a renowned essayist, scholar, playwright, and, in many ways, a songwriter. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the black Canadian community of Nova Scotia, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as “Africadia.” Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1960, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, as a seventh-generation Canadian of African American and Mi’Kmaq Amerindian heritage.
