The Portland State University School of Music and Theater invites you to a special research poster session on November 27th in the Lincoln Performance Hall Lobby area. Students studying Women in Jazz will present their individual research on women from Portland’s jazz community. Guests in attendance have the opportunity to tour the posters, engage with students, and learn about their research topics and methods.
Women in Jazz is a Special Topics in Music History course taught by Zina and Edna Professor of Jazz Voice, Sherry Alves.
Despite participation from every era of jazz, women are still largely omitted from mainstream historiography, with the exception of blues singers and the few women who rose to acceptance in the genre. This class explores contributions of women in jazz from the music’s origins to the present through the study of selected performers and composers who were/are active participants and contributors to the jazz idiom. Students examine trends and developments in jazz scholarship including recent feminist criticism and gender studies. Through each individual research project, students close small gaps in our own community’s historiography.
Musicians represented in the student research include a variety of local and internationally known performances, composers and educators: Nicole McCabe, Samara Joy, Camila Meza, Linda May Han Oh, Monica Herzig, Melissa Aldana, Adrianna Wagner, Louciana Souza, Kanoa Mendenhall, Janis Seigel, and Courtney Bryan.
Please join us to celebrate some of Portland’s women in jazz!
6:00-7:00pm
Lincoln Performance Hall Lobby Area
Free and open to the public
After the poster session the PSU Jazz Band will present their concert in tribute to Wayne Shorter in . 7pm. Tickets available at the door.
Learn more about PSU's School of Music & Theater Jazz Program.