"Say Who You Are, Play Who You Are" Workshops 2008

A piece describing the ongoing 'Play Who You Are' collaborative outreach project for...

"The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever:" Pierre Bourdieu and the Shifting Ontology of Bebop

On May 15, 1953, Toronto’s Massey Hall played host to what has become widely known in text books...

"This Music Demanded Action": Ralph Ellison's Aesthetic Imperative

VIDEO: Dr. O'Meally discusses the work of Ralph Ellison in relation to improvisation and...

2009 Colloquium Abstracts and Biographies

Biographies and abstracts for all colloquium speakers and presenters at the 2009 Guelph Jazz...

2009 Colloquium Schedule of Events

Full schedule for the 2009 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, September 9 - 11, 2009.

Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged

The Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged (AUMIPC) project uses digital...

Addiction and Agency: A New Therapeutic Model Based on Improvisation

This poster defines cognitive remediation and the formal teaching strategy called 'scaffolding...

An Interview with Fred Frith: The Teaching of Contemporary Improvisation

An interview with Fred Frith, guitarist/composer/improviser and the founder of the Master of Fine...

Anti-Kantian Aesthetics

This article traces the development of the field of aesthetics from the time of Kant to the present...

Appel, Ellington and the Modernist Canon

This review/article questions the function of cannon building by focusing on Appel's recent...