The summer institute will offer participants an exciting opportunity to learn about one of the most extraordinary art forms the United States has ever produced. You will learn how this art form, at the height of its popularity and power, deeply affected many aspects of American artistic and cultural life--vernacular speech, film, fine art, dance, literature, fashion, race relations, sex relations, and the business of disseminating art to the masses. The primary goal of the institute is to work with you to show how, through the study of the social, cultural, technical, and aesthetic history of a major American musical genre, jazz, you can rethink aspects of teaching history, literature, music, art and film while broadening students' understanding of the political, social, and commercial impact that an artistic movement can have. Participants will develop lesson plans for their subject area using aspects of jazz.
Teaching Jazz as American Culture
NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE JULY 4-29, 2005 AND JULY 2-27, 2007