It is a good day for Jazz at Yale! Join the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group on September 24th, 4:30pm, in HQ 276, for a celebration of two new books on jazz and black music by Yale faculty: Michael Veal’s Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital and Brian Kane’s Hearing Double: Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture.
Profs. Veal and Kane will give short talks about their books, followed by conversation and Q&A. Refreshments and food for all. Come celebrate with us!
Prof. Michael Veal’s Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital examines John Coltrane’s “Late Period” and Miles Davis’s “Lost Quintet” through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography. Prof. Brian Kane’s Hearing Double: Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture is a sustained engagement with the “jazz standard” that offers an original theory of musical works and fresh insights into the auditory culture of jazz musicians and listeners.
Michael Veal is Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University, His books include Fela: The Life and Times of and African Musical Icon, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae, and Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat.
Brian Kane is Associate Professor of Music and affiliated faculty in Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice and is a founding editor at nonsite.org.
The Black Sound & the Archive Working Group (BSAW) is organized by co-founders Daphne A. Brooks (African American Studies, American Studies, WGSS, and Music) and Brian Kane (Music). Learn more at blacksound.yale.edu.