CASAR cordially invites you to a lecture entitled “Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt: The Revolutionary Implications of Jazz” by Professor Salim Washington, Institute for Studies in American Music and Brooklyn College. All are welcome. more<\/p>\n
Special Formula:<\/strong>Salim Washington<\/p>\n Salim Washington is a Harlem-based musician\/scholar and an accomplished composer\/arranger, who plays tenor saxophone, flute and oboe. He earned his PhD from Harvard, after the completion of his dissertation: “Beautiful Nightmare: Coltrane, Jazz, and American Culture.” He has performed in jazz festivals in the United States, Canada, various countries in Europe, South Africa, Mozambique, Mexico, and Brazil. He leads the Harlem Arts Ensemble and has performed with many of New York’s finest musicians. He has conducted extensive research in African American musical culture and has been an educator and workshop leader in the United States, South Africa, France, and Ireland. As a scholar, Washington has won many honors and fellowships including the prestigious Fulbright Scholars Fellowship, Ann Plato Fellowship at Trinity College, W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship at Harvard University, and Wolfe Institute Fellowship at Brooklyn College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CASAR cordially invites you to a lecture entitled “Twentieth Century Aesthetic Revolt: The Revolutionary Implications of Jazz” by Professor Salim Washington, Institute for Studies in American Music and Brooklyn College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":563511,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seminars-and-lectures"],"yoast_head":"\n