August News from the JEN Research Interest Group

Welcome to the August edition of the JEN Research Interest Group newsletter. Below please find a variety of news items, announcements, callouts, new publications, and job opportunities.

A big thanks to all of you who gathered with me for a brainstorming session on new initiatives for the JEN Research Interest Group earlier this month. We have several subcommittees in progress, open for ideas and additional members.

Monthly webinars featuring authors of articles in JAZZ from the previous two and upcoming editions. Remember, JEN members have access to reading JAZZ - once you login as a member, find Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Collaboration network as a forum for researchers at any level to connect and share
Archival resources and research methods shared with the JEN membership
A Mentorship program that connects new researchers with mentors
Writing resources that are useful for the research community

Except for the archival resources and writing resources, leaders have stepped forward to initiate brainstorming sessions and first steps and each group can certainly use more participants. Just send me an email and what you’re interested in and I’ll connect you with the group.

We also created a list of actions towards expanding the circulation and practical applications of all the wonderful articles in JAZZ. Please consider implementing at least one of these suggestions as you start the school year:

a. Ask your library to subscribe to the journal by sharing the following link https://iupress.org/journals/jazz-education-in-research-and-practice/. Please note that JSTOR is discontinuing their journal program and JSTOR links are not working at this time. However, your library may add the subscription through their EBSCO and Proquest or similar services anyway but do share the link above initially. A suggested note or request script to your library may read as follows:

Please add a subscription to Jazz Education in Research and Practice (JAZZ) to our library resources. JAZZ explores diverse topics of jazz scholarship and its applications to pedagogy and is an essential knowledge source for our students and faculty. Ideally our students will have access to the print copies as well as the electronic version in our library. It is extremely affordable (institutional print and electronic subscription only $85, single issues starting at $20, here is the complete pricing chart) - please follow this link to subscribe.

b. Include some of the published articles into your course materials for the upcoming semester and ask your students to order the articles for their personal use through the interlibrary loan system. This is a great way to introduce students to available resources and the process of literature review and research. The complete table of content can be found on the JSTOR site for the previous two issues. The journal is also a membership benefit for full JEN members and pdfs are available for read only on the JEN website (you must be logged in to access and no download possible). Preview the various articles and choose the ones to include in your syllabus with instructions for your students on how to order from your library. This strategy is at no cost for you or your students but will be an immense boost for the journal rankings and article distribution stats - similar to getting streaming numbers for your music tracks.

c. Consider advertising or getting your school/institution/company to place an ad in the upcoming volume - deadline September 30. Advertising and contact info can be found at this link, and with the availability to 5,000+ full JEN members and availability in all major scholarly search engines, ads in JAZZ are a lasting and highly effective way for reaching the jazz community.

Registration is now open for the January 5-8 Conference in Dallas. Please note that all research presentations will be on Wednesday, January 5. Plan on arriving Tuesday or Wednesday morning in order to benefit from the wealth of scholarship and insights that is scheduled throughout this first day. Info on registration and hotel reservations is here. In the newsletters leading up to the conference I’d like to feature this year’s research presenters - if you are scheduled for a research presentation, please send me a paragraph that describes what you will share and the importance of your work and we’ll include it in the upcoming newsletters.

Please feel free to share this news compilation and invite colleagues to join the mailing list and/or Facebook page. Remember to check the updated job listings here. If you have new books/ articles/ dissertations published, send me the info to be included in the newsletter. Also send over ideas on how JENRing can help you in your jazz research and networking. Items of interest related to jazz research may also be shared on the Facebook page.

Sincerely,

Monika Herzig

JEN Research Interest Group Committee Chair

Editor, JAZZ (Jazz Education in Research and Practice)

The fifth International Jazz Composers’ Symposium, co-sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin and the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers (ISJAC), will be held in the Butler School of Music facilities at UT/Austin, from May 12-14, 2022. The Symposium is designed as a forum to unite jazz composers of all ages and nationalities in an informal exchange of ideas, information, and inspiration. This year's Symposium will include noted master artists Terri Lyne Carrington, Jim McNeely, Miguel Zenon, Miho Hazama & John Clayton among others, in a series of concerts, lectures, master classes, panel discussions, research presentations, and industry sessions.
Call for Scores, Papers, & Poster Sessions
Composers, Arrangers, and Scholars are invited to apply to present their work at the Symposium in one of several formats:
New Music Presentations
New Music Master Classes
Student Master Classes
Poster Sessions
Research Papers

All works submitted for New Music Master Classes will also be considered for ISJAC’s SONIC Awards and a featured performance by the resident professional jazz orchestra.
APPLY NOW!! Applications and Guidelines are now available.

Please note: Deadline for submission of all application materials is Thurs., Oct. 14th.

Charles Robert “Charlie” Watts, the Rolling Stones’ drummer and the band’s irreplaceable heartbeat, has died at age 80. No cause of death was given.

Watts’ publicist confirmed his death in a statement. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts,” it read. “He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier [Tuesday] surrounded by his family.” The statement referred to Watts as “one of the greatest drummers of his generation” and closed by requesting that “the privacy of his family, band members, and close friends is respected at this difficult time.”

Watts’ death comes several weeks after it was announced that the drummer would not be able to perform on the Rolling Stones’ No Filter Tour of U.S. stadiums. “Charlie has had a procedure which was completely successful, but his doctors this week concluded that he now needs proper rest and recuperation,” a rep for the band said in a statement at the time. “With rehearsals starting in a couple of weeks, it’s very disappointing to say the least, but it’s also fair to say no one saw this coming.”

It was hard to imagine the Stones without Watts even then, though. His light touch, singular rhythmic sense, and impeccable feel, as heard on canonical rock songs such as “Paint It, Black,” “Gimme Shelter,” and “Brown Sugar,” made him both the engine that powered the Stones’ music and one of the most famous and respected drummers of all time.

As Keith Richards said in 1979: “Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones. If Charlie wasn’t doing what he’s doing on drums, that wouldn’t be true at all. You’d find out that Charlie Watts is the Stones.”

September 14-18th, 2021

We are living in a time of global ecological crisis causing waves of migration, the strengthening of national politics and social division, challenging us to adopt new ethical attitudes in order to question predominant systems. The Corona pandemic led to an additional shaking of the economic and socio-cultural order. At the same time, it has caused the establishment of a new way of human interaction: Audiovisual media have become the most important means of exchange and communication, often the only possible gateway to the world and to our fellow human beings. At the same time, the increased immersion in digital worlds of images and sound is changing our understanding of reality. Such a transformed worldview is concomitant to new perspectives in contemporary philosophy; these perspectives have long since found their continuation in the artistic fields. In particular, critical posthumanism offers the conceptual tools for a "critical aesthetic turn" to develop new ways of thinking, narrating, fabulating, speculating, knowing, and subject-forming, and to exploit this change of perspective in aesthetic practice. How can we address current ethical and environmental challenges through artistic, filmic and philosophical means, including the emerging audiovisual platforms?

The international online symposium "Intra-Activity: Post-human, Fabulation and Matter" invites 24 participants from different countries to come together and form a fictitive "International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation". In 24 philosophical or artistic presentations, they will illuminate the role of speculation, figuration, and fabulation in film, literature, and philosophy in shaping social and political processes. They will report on the state of the Anthropocene, sketch a speculative future in their respective fields, or present philosophical and/or artistic and filmic approaches that address the entanglement of the biosphere, ecosphere, and technosphere, and between climate change and the corona pandemic. Together, the dominant discourse on migration, economics, climate change, or ecology will be put to the test with the inclusion of different perspectives and ethics. 12 additional keynotes will round the thought picture: For example, Rosi Braidotti, who has coined the term “critical post-humanism” and particularly inquired into the posthuman condition and ethics will give a short workshop.

Deadline October 31, 2021

The American Journal of Arts Management, www.artsmanagementjournal.com is accepting submissions for the January 2022 issue. Serving arts management educators and professionals since 2013, AJAM is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal published three times a year. Featuring today’s hot topics and current issues in the arts management field and pedagogy, the journal is a public forum supporting rigorous research alongside new professional practices. Centered between academia and the field, we curate a space where colleagues can challenge, debate, and apply theories and models to performing arts management practices in the United States and beyond.

Areas of particular interest include non-profit performing arts management; governance and leadership; advocacy; diversity, equity, inclusion and access; human resources; community engagement; marketing and audience development, fundraising, financial management; the history of arts management; arts management consulting; and the teaching of arts management, including case studies and curriculum design. In addition to articles (up to 10,000 words in length), we are also accepting submissions for AJAM’s Teaching Notes section. Instructors working in arts management programs and cogent fields can share experiences and examples in designing a class with original content, or a term long assignment within a core class. All submissions should be sent to: Kevin Maifeld, Co-Editor, AJAM, maifeldk@seattleu.edu, by October 31, 2021.

Dear CMS Members:

The Program Committee is happy to announce that calls for participation for the 2022 National Conference in Long Beach, CA (September 22–24) are now available on the conference website. All proposals are due no later than 12 noon Mountain Time on Tuesday, November 30.

Our conference partners are the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI), and Pi Kappa Lambda (PKL).

As announced by CMS President Mark Rabideau, the Society’s common topic for 2021–22 is “Leading Change,” and our conference will endeavor to be a model for how music in higher education can treat popular, traditional, classical, and experimental musical practices in an equitable way. It will also explore actions that can help our profession navigate the necessary “epistemic shift in the ways in which we prepare musicians for the challenges and opportunities of living, learning, and teaching” in our hybrid world.

For the 2022 conference, we aim to significantly increase the representation of popular, traditional and fusion music in our composer concerts, performance showcases and lecture-recitals. To accomplish this, we have updated the composition and performance calls to encourage submissions that include improvised music and music that does not use Western notation. We will also include performers who are versed in jazz and various popular traditions in our list of provided performers for the showcase concerts. Alicia Doyle, Associate Director of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSU-Long Beach and former CMS Board Member, has agreed to coordinate performers for the Call for Scores for CUSLB-Provided Performers. She is in the midst of contacting faculty and student musicians, and we will publish the final list of soloists and ensembles who are available for the conference no later than August 15, 2021.

To further the theme of “leading change,” we have also transformed previously offered “campfire discussions” into a new format titled “working groups.” Working groups view the conference not as the endpoint, but as the starting point for a resource or a set of actions that will be completed in the following year.

Beautiful Long Beach has a vibrant waterfront scene with excellent restaurants, a world-class aquarium, an aquatic park, and ferries to the idyllic Catalina Island. Located a block from the waterfront, the Westin Long Beach is conveniently just six miles from the Long Beach Airport, and 20 miles from LAX. For art lovers, the Museum of Latin American Art and the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum are both just one mile away. Long Beach is the home of thriving Latin Music and hip hop scenes. It is also the home of Cambodia Town, and just 10 miles from the largest Little Saigon in the United States. The conference will feature musicians from these communities.

We hope you will submit a proposal and join us in Long Beach in September 2022!

Best Wishes,

2022 CMS National Conference Program Committee:

Eric Hung, Chair
Anthony Branker, Composition
Carl DuPont, Performance
Amanda Soto, Scholarship, Research, & Pedagogy

The University of Valladolid In Spain and the Katarina Gurska Institute for Artistic Research are together to disseminate knowledge related to innovative scientific and artistic research.

With the social use of technology, interconnectivity, and instantaneity, we face the challenge of providing musicians with the necessary concepts and mindsets to adapt the development of their professional skills to the current paradigm and to understand and creatively deal with the changes within their respective fields.

Educational institutions have to search for new concepts of knowledge production and redefine their structures to become hybrid models of think tanks and shelters, laboratories and publishers, funders and archivists at the same time and under one roof. Interdisciplinarity is the keyword of the hour...but what are the personal and social prerequisites for successful integration of the parties involved in contemporary music teaching, practice, and musical innovation including all its traditions, cultural backgrounds, instrumentalities, and mentalities?
Will these fascinating technologies inspire uniformity or diversity?

A great opportunity for artists, professionals, teachers, and students of all levels to share their research results related to any of the 4 research lines of the congress:

Artistic Interaction and Technology - Sept. 3
Innovation in Music Education - Sept. 4
Arts, Science and Technology - Sept. 4
Music and Society in the 21st century - Sept. 4

We are pleased to announce the launch of Volume 5, Issue 1 of Riffs! This issue is guest edited by Ash Watson, from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney, and it focusses on Popular Music Fiction.

This issue includes seven pieces of short fiction by popular music researchers on issues such as AI, music production and song ownership, post-pandemic music scenes, memory and collecting, identity and biographies, music writing and criticism, and clubbing.

In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”

An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page.

Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia has received almost non-stop feedback and suggestions from the passionate global community of jazz enthusiasts and performers requesting crucial additions and corrections to the book. In this second edition, Gioia expands the scope of the book to include more songs, and features new recordings by rising contemporary artists.

The Jazz Standards is an essential comprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. The fan who wants to know more about a tune heard at the club or on the radio will find this book indispensable. Musicians who play these songs night after night will find it to be a handy guide, as it outlines the standards' history and significance and tells how they have been performed by different generations of jazz artists. Students learning about jazz standards will find it to be a go-to reference work for these cornerstones of the repertoire. This book is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form.