Category: writing
Event Start:
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
Writing Musical LivesJohn Szwed
The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall, April 13, 5:30 pm This talk will focus on some of the virtues and problems of writing about the lives of musicians. It will include a quick survey of the types and uses of life narratives by ethnomusicologists, folklorists, social scientists, and popular writers, with a short discussion of some recent innovative biographical works. Examples will be drawn from a variety of biographies, including my books on Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, and Alan Lomax
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