Chicago Fire: The Men and Women of the A.A.C.M. and Their Enduring Power
Time: March 26, 2019, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library
Larry Blumenfeld (Brooklyn, NY)
A meeting at a musician’s home on Chicago’s South Side more than 50 years ago sparked an engine of creative inspiration and practical outreach that has since touched nearly all corners of modern music -- the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). It is hard to imagine the aesthetic and function of today’s jazz absent that influence.
Additional supporters:
- Council on Diversity and Inclusion
- S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
- Goldring Arts Journalism Program
- Hendricks Chapel
- Museum Studies
- English / Creative Writing
- School of Education
- Latino-Latin American Studies
- SUArt Galleries
- Art and Music Histories
- Setnor School of Music
- Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
- History
- Samba Laranja
- CNY Jazz Central
- Belfer Archives
- Special Collections Research Center
- WAER
This event is part of the 2019 Watson Professor residency hosted by Eric Grode - director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program, and assistant professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
The Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities is a preeminent lectureship originally established by the Watson family to support on-campus residencies of prominent humanities scholars, writers, and artists.
Eric Grode, Newhouse