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PANEL 1B: Genre Divisions, Dialogue, and Social Cooperation

Guelph Jazz Festival, ICASP

Published: 2014-08-19

A conference panel that was presented as part of the 2013 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium.
Moderator: Joe Sorbara
• Michael Kaler (Ethnomusicology, York University), “Two Streams or One River: The Starfires and Improvisational Divisions”
• Reva Marin (Humanities, York University), “‘Went Up Over the Levee’: Stories of Immersion in African American Music and Culture by White Jazz Autobiographers”
• Carol Ann Weaver (Music, University of Waterloo), “Improvising Song from Natural Sound: Hearing the Kalahari into Music”

Available Files

  • GJFC_2013_Panel_1B_Genre_Divisions_full_edited.mp4

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Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.