John Howland Colloquium December 3, 2010

Old Cabell Hall Room 107

John Howland is associate professor of Musicology at Rutgers University. His research concerns the rich interconnections among popular culture, popular music, the jazz tradition, and American discourses on race, class-status, and culture. He is the author of Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz (University of Michigan Press, 2009), which traces African American contributions to the symphonic jazz vogue of the 1920s through 1940s. His current project, Luxe Pop, explores a long-standing tradition of merging popular music idioms with lush string orchestrations, big-band instrumentation, and other related markers of musical sophistication, musical spectacle, theatricality, and epic or “cinematic” qualities.
(Presented by the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music Critical and Comparative Studies )

Official Website: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/pressreleases/10-11/101203howland.html