Women in Jazz: Excluded, Erased & Enigmatic
Join us for a special event with Grammy award-winning Saxophonist, Composer, Educator and Activist Roxy Coss. She is the Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), Director of Jazz Studies at Stony Brook University, and just completed a year-long position as Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan University as a Distinguished Scholar in the Bailey College of the Environment’s Think Tank on “Agency”, where she designed and taught a course entitled “A Celebration of Women in Jazz”.
This lecture and conversation will cover the themes explored in her research, including notable women who helped shape the art form; as well as the complex and troubled past and present of gender issues in Jazz, within the broader context of the social structures, power systems, and political history of America.
