DJ2020 Delegates Short Biographies Material Reflections at Documenting Jazz 2020
Welcome
Dr Pedro Cravinho (Conference Chair)
On behalf of the conference committee, I welcome you all to Documenting Jazz 2020. Now in its second edition, the Documenting Jazz conferences aim to offer an unparalleled variety of experiences drawn from across the world. It brings together colleagues from across the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss documenting jazz. As this programme reflects, we have contributions from individuals of all career stages, from established scholars and practitioners, to those just starting their careers, embracing the academic sector and other heritage and cultural organisations.
This year theme is focused on ways of documenting jazz as visual culture and its distinct representations. The act of documenting jazz embodies ways of documenting that reflect assumptions about the past. As changes in technology, cultures and economies have profoundly influenced and affected our perception of music, alternative ways of documenting jazz must be considered, explored, and discussed. Documenting Jazz 2020 aims to consolidate discussions around issues of gender, and the way those have been documented or marginalised in this music history. It also seeks to challenge the narratives surrounding jazz as a male-dominated domain. Professors Catherine Tackley and Kristin McGee both represent excellence in jazz scholarship, and I am incredibly grateful for their participation.
This conference would not be possible without the hard work of the conference and programme committee and beyond, within Birmingham City University and outside. I extend my sincere thanks to all involved. I look forward to meeting you throughout the conference and the surrounding events.
Lastly, enjoy your stay in Birmingham!
Programme
The final programme is available here:
Venue
Rooms
Welcome session, keynotes, book session and closing remarks: The HIVE
Parallel sessions and networking: Curzon B rooms C483, C484, C485, C486 & C487
Registration (Closed)
The registration is now closed. We are looking forward to seeing you at Documenting Jazz 2020!
Call for Papers (Closed)
The CfP for Documenting Jazz 2020 is now closed. We are looking forward to seeing you at Documenting Jazz 2020!
The Documenting Jazz 2020 CfP PDF can be downloaded here:
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are.
John Berger, (ed.) Ways of Seeing. 1987.
Birmingham City University is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Documenting Jazz conference, to be held on 16–18 January 2020. Now in its second year, Documenting Jazz brings together colleagues from across the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss documenting jazz. Since its first edition in Dublin 2019, the Documenting Jazz Conference aims to offer an unparalleled variety of experiences drawn from across the world. We hope to include contributions from individuals of all career stages, from established scholars and practitioners to those just starting their careers. We embrace the academic sector and other heritage and cultural organisations in partnership with each other and with communities. Our keynote speakers are drawn from across the academic sector to inspire debate and discussion amongst participants.
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger argues that though every image embodies a way of seeing–every photograph is the photographer’s selection from an infinite number of other sights–so too our perception of an image changes with our personal way of seeing. The act of documenting jazz embodies ways of documenting that reflect assumptions about the past. As changes in technology, cultures and economies have profoundly influenced and affected our perception of music, alternative ways of documenting jazz must be considered, explored, and discussed. Documenting Jazz 2020 invites proposals on this year’s theme of ways of documenting jazz, either as
- Jazz in Photography
- Jazz in the Press
- Jazz on/in Cinema
- Jazz on/in Television
- Jazz online
Keynote Speakers
Kristin McGee
Keynote: Gendering Jazz in Film and Television: Alternative Ways of Seeing and Hearing the Jazz Past
Kristin McGee is Associate Professor in Popular Music Studies in the Arts, Culture and Media Department at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She teaches on various subjects including popular music theory, jazz, gender and sexuality within popular music, music and globalization, critical race theory, audiovisual arts cultures, film music, and music event organization. She is also the current chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Benelux. She has written on the subject of jazz, gender, popular music and audiovisual media within a variety of articles and books, including her monograph ‘Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television‘ (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). She has co-edited the series ‘Making Lemonade: Finding Art, Activism, and Community with Beyoncé in Troubled Times‘ with C. Baade and M. Smith (Wesleyan University Press, in press). Her book ‘Remixing European Jazz Culture‘ for Routledge’s Transnational Studies in Jazz series is currently in press.
Catherine Tackley
Keynote: Seeing Jazz: the visual documentation of jazz in interwar British popular culture
Professor Catherine Tackley (née Parsonage) joined the University of Liverpool in August 2016 as Head of the Department of Music, having worked previously at The Open University and Leeds College of Music. Catherine has written two books – ‘The Evolution of Jazz in Britain: c. 1880-1935‘ (Ashgate, 2005) and ‘Benny Goodman’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert‘ (OUP, 2012) – and co-edited ‘Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance‘ (Ashgate, 2014). In 2018, Catherine curated ‘Rhythm and Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain’, an acclaimed exhibition in London based on her research. From 2012 to 2014 she was Principal Investigator of the AHRC Research Networking project ‘Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns’, and continues to work on music and seafaring. Catherine is Musical Director of Dr Jazz and the Cheshire Cats Big Band.
Sponsored by:
Within this year’s theme proposals are invited in the following formats:
- Individual papers (20 mins duration plus 10 mins Q&A, up to 250 word abstract).
- Joint papers (max 2 speakers, same format as above).
- Themed sessions (3 papers totalling 90 mins, up to 250 word per paper plus 250 outlining content and rationale for the session).
- Round-table discussions (90 mins, max. 6 speakers. Up to 750 word outlining the format, content and rationale for the session).
- Posters (up to 250 word abstract).
Proposals should include:
- Title for the paper and/or session.
- Name, contact details and affiliation of the speaker(s). In the case of themed sessions and round-table sessions, the panel convenor.
- Brief biography of the speaker(s) (100 words per speaker).
Please send to Dr Pedro Cravinho pedro.cravinho@documentingjazz.com
by 11 August 2019. The programme committee will examine all abstracts by 1 September 2019, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter.
Conference Committee:
- Dr Pedro Cravinho (Birmingham City University, Chair)
- Dr Simon Barber (Birmingham City University)
- Dr Damian Evans (Research Foundation for Music in Ireland)
- Dr Marian Jago (University of Edinburgh)
- Prof Nicholas Gebhardt (Birmingham City University)
- Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University)
- Dr Sarah Raine (Birmingham City University)
- Prof Tim Wall (Birmingham City University)
- Prof Tony Whyton (Birmingham City University)
Programme Committee:
- Dr Pedro Cravinho (Birmingham City University, Chair)
- Judit Csobod (Research candidate at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation)
- Dr Damian Evans (Research Foundation for Music in Ireland)
- Dr Mathias Heyman (University of Antwerp)
- Dr Marian Jago (University of Edinburgh)
- Corey Mwamba (PhD candidate, Birmingham City University)
- Dr Sarah Raine (Birmingham City University)
- Dr Heli Reimman (University of the Arts Helsinki)
- Dr Loes Rusch (University of Amsterdam)
- Dr Tom Sykes (University of Salford)
