Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
Beginning in 2008, American studies professor Sherrie Tucker and dance professor Michelle Heffner... more Beginning in 2008, American studies professor Sherrie Tucker and dance professor Michelle Heffner Hayes developed a series of concurrent course offerings across American Studies and Dance at the University of Kansas. In this collaboratively authored article, Tucker and Hayes reflect on the surprising ramifications of that first grafted class in 2008, and subsequent collaborations, in order to posit a model of improvisational pedagogy of grafting across disciplines that may invigorate research across disciplines in the liberal arts. Tucker and Hayes describe a praxis that motivates teaching and inspires research in a dynamic interactive relationship.
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, 2008
Scholars in Jazz Studies who seek to analyze sexuality in meaningful ways struggle against a hist... more Scholars in Jazz Studies who seek to analyze sexuality in meaningful ways struggle against a historical legacy of writing saturated by racist and colonialist desires manifest in primitivism, romanticism, and hyper-sexualization. This baggage does not go away when scholars turn their focus to “hidden histories of queer jazz musicians.” This article argues for another tack, to analyze heterosexual norms as social constructions; to understand intersectional analysis as a network of actively changing and contingent categories, and to attend to dynamics of “queering” and “straightening” in historically and culturally specific moments. This article poses the question—“when did jazz go straight?”—not as a literal question that can be answered once and for all, but as a candidate for inclusion in a new and improved “sexuality” compartment of the Jazz Studies toolkit.
On the evening of March 8, 2014, I became the most envied person in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ... more On the evening of March 8, 2014, I became the most envied person in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Marriott Heritage Ballroom (perhaps the whole of Lancaster County). For my own part, I snoozed. But there on the nightstand, my cell phone danced with texts of more energetic colleagues: “Sherrie, you won theGrove! Where the @#! are you?” It seemed I had hit the jackpot in the SAM 2.0 raffle. In (quite literally) the blink of an eye, I had gone from a run-of-the-mill scholar of American music with pretty much the same books on the shelf as others with my particular set of research interests, to one of the few people on the planet toownthe entire eight-volumeAmeriGrove II. In that same life-changing moment—as I learned the next morning—I had also become the person least able to politely decline John Koegel's invitation to contribute to this multipart review.
The absence of millions of men have [sic] left vacancies in many fields which are rapidly being f... more The absence of millions of men have [sic] left vacancies in many fields which are rapidly being filled by the fairer sex. At PV, in order that music may still be kept alive, the co-eds have taken over the horns and strings with tremendous success. ... I said, "If there's this girl band ...
... So it should be no surprise that I experi-enced great joy and relief when I viewed the ... We... more ... So it should be no surprise that I experi-enced great joy and relief when I viewed the ... We do not know what the question was to which an aging Winburn is responding, but in her brief ... What side of the black/white divide did people of color who were not African American occupy? ...
... In addition, she played alongside such talented young musicians as Melba Liston, Clora 38 Swi... more ... In addition, she played alongside such talented young musicians as Melba Liston, Clora 38 Swing Shift ... musicians were, after all, among the draft-exempt afm mem-bers who were available to hold union jobs, follow union rules, pay union dues, and maintain the strength of the ...
... Or by the figure of the jazz/blues singer as the embodiment of stereotypes about black femini... more ... Or by the figure of the jazz/blues singer as the embodiment of stereotypes about black femininity, over-sexed and ... Ingrid Monson, "The Problem With White Hipness: Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions in Jazz Historical Discourse," Journal of the American Musicological ...
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
Beginning in 2008, American studies professor Sherrie Tucker and dance professor Michelle Heffner... more Beginning in 2008, American studies professor Sherrie Tucker and dance professor Michelle Heffner Hayes developed a series of concurrent course offerings across American Studies and Dance at the University of Kansas. In this collaboratively authored article, Tucker and Hayes reflect on the surprising ramifications of that first grafted class in 2008, and subsequent collaborations, in order to posit a model of improvisational pedagogy of grafting across disciplines that may invigorate research across disciplines in the liberal arts. Tucker and Hayes describe a praxis that motivates teaching and inspires research in a dynamic interactive relationship.
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, 2008
Scholars in Jazz Studies who seek to analyze sexuality in meaningful ways struggle against a hist... more Scholars in Jazz Studies who seek to analyze sexuality in meaningful ways struggle against a historical legacy of writing saturated by racist and colonialist desires manifest in primitivism, romanticism, and hyper-sexualization. This baggage does not go away when scholars turn their focus to “hidden histories of queer jazz musicians.” This article argues for another tack, to analyze heterosexual norms as social constructions; to understand intersectional analysis as a network of actively changing and contingent categories, and to attend to dynamics of “queering” and “straightening” in historically and culturally specific moments. This article poses the question—“when did jazz go straight?”—not as a literal question that can be answered once and for all, but as a candidate for inclusion in a new and improved “sexuality” compartment of the Jazz Studies toolkit.
On the evening of March 8, 2014, I became the most envied person in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ... more On the evening of March 8, 2014, I became the most envied person in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Marriott Heritage Ballroom (perhaps the whole of Lancaster County). For my own part, I snoozed. But there on the nightstand, my cell phone danced with texts of more energetic colleagues: “Sherrie, you won theGrove! Where the @#! are you?” It seemed I had hit the jackpot in the SAM 2.0 raffle. In (quite literally) the blink of an eye, I had gone from a run-of-the-mill scholar of American music with pretty much the same books on the shelf as others with my particular set of research interests, to one of the few people on the planet toownthe entire eight-volumeAmeriGrove II. In that same life-changing moment—as I learned the next morning—I had also become the person least able to politely decline John Koegel's invitation to contribute to this multipart review.
The absence of millions of men have [sic] left vacancies in many fields which are rapidly being f... more The absence of millions of men have [sic] left vacancies in many fields which are rapidly being filled by the fairer sex. At PV, in order that music may still be kept alive, the co-eds have taken over the horns and strings with tremendous success. ... I said, "If there's this girl band ...
... So it should be no surprise that I experi-enced great joy and relief when I viewed the ... We... more ... So it should be no surprise that I experi-enced great joy and relief when I viewed the ... We do not know what the question was to which an aging Winburn is responding, but in her brief ... What side of the black/white divide did people of color who were not African American occupy? ...
... In addition, she played alongside such talented young musicians as Melba Liston, Clora 38 Swi... more ... In addition, she played alongside such talented young musicians as Melba Liston, Clora 38 Swing Shift ... musicians were, after all, among the draft-exempt afm mem-bers who were available to hold union jobs, follow union rules, pay union dues, and maintain the strength of the ...
... Or by the figure of the jazz/blues singer as the embodiment of stereotypes about black femini... more ... Or by the figure of the jazz/blues singer as the embodiment of stereotypes about black femininity, over-sexed and ... Ingrid Monson, "The Problem With White Hipness: Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions in Jazz Historical Discourse," Journal of the American Musicological ...
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