Events

Past Event

Jazz and Place: Cities, Soundscape, Venues

November 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York

Event Description

This symposium considers how jazz takes shape in and through place. It explores how music moves across streets, dance floors, clubs, museums, and festivals; how room design, amplification, and staging shape what audiences hear and how they participate; and how history, the built environment, and racialized geographies condition who gets access to these spaces. It invites participants to think across neighborhoods, scenes, and cities—past and present—to develop novel articulations of how places are conjured through music and how places, in turn, animate the music we hear.

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please email Yulanda McKenzie at [email protected]

Hosted by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.