Latin Jazz and Jazz in Latin America

Music of the Americas Working Group

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
Buchanan Hall, Meese Room

The Working Group on Music of the Americas brings together GMU faculty and graduate students from several different disciplines with a common research interest in popular music. We propose to move the transnational from the margins to the center. Through a series of panels and workshops, we will endeavor to advance interdisciplinary research into the hemispheric flow of musical ideas, sounds, practices, and preferences. Whenever possible, we will include musical performance in our events in order to bring together realms of musical experience and ways of thinking about musical inquiry that have traditionally been kept separate. We hope that these events will be of interest to other faculty and students on campus as well as to others in the community.