Jazzbandism

From its ongoing series of seminars on Modernism, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts presents a lecture this afternoon by Franklin's Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Professor of English at UGA, Jazzbandism:

When jazz emerged during the First World War, and rapidly spread around the globe, the term “jazz” was not consistently understood to refer to music. It was taken to be a dance, a drum kit, a euphemism for sex, a term for general gaiety, or the energizing ingredient in Americanism. For artists, writers, and composers associated with the European avant-garde, it served as a decal signifying the vanguard as such. “Jazzbandism” will offer a visual feast to accompany a history of “jazz” before it became jazz as we now understand it.

Monday, October 15 at 3:35 pm in room 148 of the MLC.

Free and open to the public.