Music Program and Dean of the College Present

Salim Washington: “Freedom in the Jazz Imaginary: 20th Century Aesthetic Revolt”

Salim Washington will discuss the origins and development of jazz music and the imaginary that surrounds it, with a special focus on the revolutionary potential and the ways in which it functions in our society.

Salim Washington is the inaugural International Visiting Professor of African American and African Diasporic Studies at Columbia University. Washington is also a cluster leader and head of department of Performing Arts, as well as a professor at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban, South Africa). A composer and reedsman, he performs on the flute, tenor saxophone, oboe, and bass clarinet. He also studied other instruments including mbira and hand drums. Prof Washington is a widely published scholar of Black culture and music. His interests include the Black Atlantic, afrofuturism, jazz and other vernacular musics, and diasporic film and literature. Washington is now completing the following titles: Beautiful Nightmare: John Coltrane, Jazz, and American Culture and Notes from Mzansi: The South African Jazz Imaginary. Washington performed at the Pan African Space Station in Cape Town, South Africa in 2021

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Blum N211, the jazz room

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