Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for Advanced Study
- Location
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory
- Date
- Apr 23, 2025 5:00 pm
- Contact
- Center for Advanced Study
- cas@cas.illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-369-7395
- Views
- 556
- Originating Calendar
- Center for Advanced Study
In this presentation, Darius and Catherine Brubeck will take us to apartheid-era South Africa, where in 1983 they established a pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. This resilient program brought black and white musicians together to explore and expand the landscape of South African jazz, providing a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins the Brubecks for this conversation.
Hosted by: University of Illinois Press
In conjunction with: Center for African Studies, Humanities Research Institute, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Program in Jazz Studies, School of Music, Sousa Archive, Spurlock Museum