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DESCRIPTION:Rashida Braggs\n	'Performance as Research: Embodying Race & Gend
 er in Jazz'\n	\n	Co-sponsored with the Schulich School of Music \n	\n	Marvin D
 uchow Music Library\n	Room A-410\n	1:35pm \n	\n	Abstract\n	How do we perform di
 aspora? This question persists on and beyond the pages of Rashida K. Bragg
 s’ book Jazz Diasporas: Race\, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Pa
 ris (University of California Press 2016)—a monograph that explores the mi
 gratory experiences of African American jazz musicians in post-WWII Paris 
 and how ideologies of racial and national identity were enacted through th
 eir musical performances and collaborations. As Braggs explored their cult
 ural\, social and musical performances\, she discovered limits to theoriza
 tion based solely on archival and ethnographic jazz research. She question
 ed\, where was the body in the jazz diaspora? Did her black\, female\, mob
 ile body converge with other black women from different times and location
 s in the Francophone African diaspora? To address these questions\, Braggs
  created original solo-embodied performances to explore the sensorial and 
 experiential knowledge of the diaspora and to situate herself directly in 
 relation to the experiences of other African diasporic jazz women performe
 rs\, via her own body. In this presentation\, Braggs will discuss her merg
 ing of archival and ethnographic research with embodied performance to inv
 estigate select black women singers in contemporary and historical Paris a
 nd her new research at the Meilan Lam archive at Concordia University on b
 lack jazz dancers living and performing in 1930s Montreal. Braggs will sha
 re how she uses performance as a research tool for recovering\, reviving a
 nd reimagining the archive of women jazz performers and some of the questi
 ons\, challenges and opportunities that arise from embodying the diasporic
  experiences of black women jazz performers.\n	\n	Bio\n	Rashida K. Braggs is 
 Associate Professor in Africana Studies and faculty affiliate in Comparati
 ve Literature and American Studies at Williams College. Her background in 
 performance studies prompts her consistent study of African diasporic cult
 ural expressions via a performative lens. In such courses as 13 Ways of Lo
 oking at Jazz and Black Migrations: African American Performance at Home a
 nd Abroad\, Dr. Braggs teaches students to explore how performance conveys
  values\, patterns and negotiations of power in society. In addition to he
 r book Jazz Diasporas: Race\, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Par
 is (2016)\, Braggs has also published in such journals as Palimpsest: A Jo
 urnal on Women\, Gender\, and the Black International\, The Journal of Pop
 ular Music and The James Baldwin Review.\n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Rashida Braggs 'Performance as Research: Embodying Race & Gender in
  Jazz'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/rashida-braggs-performance-re
 search-embodying-race-gender-jazz-286058
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