Event Title

Black Music Matters: Jazz, Funk and the Academy

Presenter Information

Ed Sarath, University of Michigan

Location

Dayton, OH

Start Date

13-9-2018 2:30 PM

Description

This talk situates funk and its close relationship with jazz within the overarching context of black music in higher education.

Event Type

Presentation

Streaming Media

Comments

Ed Sarath is a professor of music at the University of Michigan and director of the UM Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies; he is active as a performer, composer, recording artist, and scholar. Founder and president of the International Society for Improvised Music, he is the author of Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies (Rowman and Littlefield 2018).