In October 2018, Berklee announced the launch of a new initiative, led by the remarkable Terri Lyne Carrington.
The Institute was founded on a musical question, which is:
What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy?
This morning I was viewing the video of remarks from our outstanding keynote speaker Dr Farah Jasmine Griffin (William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University NY). Like a lot of people, when an inspiring speaker mentions artists, music or books that are new to me, I like to explore further – cue a brief trip down a Google ‘rabbit hole’. So here’s the full presentation, with citations below.
References
- Hairston, Monica, Nichole T Rustin, Sherrie Tucker, and Ronald Radano. “Gender, Jazz and the Popular Front.” In Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010. Excerpt
- Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem. 1st Scribner poetry ed. New York: Scribner Poetry, 1997. Wiki
- Shange, Ntozake. Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010. Google books
Artists, composers, ensembles and authors:
- Geri Allen
- JS Bach
- Béla Bartók
- Billy Bang
- John Blake
- Clifford Brown
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Regina Carter
- Willie Colón
- India Cooke
- Jayne Cortez
- Miles Davis
- Akua Dixon (Quartette Indigo)
- Duke Ellington
- Stéphane Grappelli
- Oliver Lake
- Charles Mingus
- David Murray
- Ray Nance
- Eddie Palmieri
- Marlene Rice
- Ntozake Shange
- Archie Shepp
- Uptown String Quartet
- Sarah Vaughan
- Mary Lou Williams
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