Jazz Forum presents: Sherrie Tucker
Jazz Forum: Black History Lectures and Discussions
Guest: Sherrie Tucker
Topic: Women in Early New Orleans Jazz
Please note: These workshops are available to staff and students at the Schulich School of Music. Zoom links will be sent by email from publicity.music to the Schulich community weekly.
Sherrie Tucker (Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas) is the author of Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (Duke, 2014), Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s (Duke, 2000) and co-editor, with Nichole T. Rustin, of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Duke, 2008). She is currently collaborating across disciplines, communities, abilities, and occupations, on a book entitled, Improvising across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument. She is co-editor, with Randal M. Jelks, of the journal American Studies, and a Series Editor, along with Deborah Wong and Jeremy Wallach, of the Music/Culture Series at Wesleyan University Press.
