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A Twitter feed that builds on the HERA-funded Rhythm Changes research project

Europe, mostly
Joined September 2010
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Dear UK jazz festival directors, though I sent most of you a copy of this article when it was published 18 months ago, now seems like it might be a good time to (re-)read it. Would love to talk! It's a FREE download! georgemckay.org/wp-content/u… @CHIMEproject @rhythmchanges
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A few viewers of last week's @europejazznet webinar where I talked about jazz, health, epidemics, got in touch afterwards about it. So here is a link to #openaccess (free) copy of my 2019 Routledge Companion chapter 'Jazz & disability' #furtherreading georgemckay.org/jazz-and-dis…
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... other polio survivors from jazz include @charliehaden, Dave Liebman, David Sanborn, Joni Mitchell ... what might the connections be between epidemic, health, disability, impairment ... and jazz? @europejazznet
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& here is West Coast pianist Carl 'The Crab' Perkins, #polio survivor & jazz pianist, his left hand impairment clearly visible on the cover of Introducing Carl Perkins (1962?) @europejazznet
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& here, another #polio survivor and jazz musician, Mingus's pianist Horace Parlan, talking about disability & jazz @europejazznet
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in the @europejazznet webinar this pm I'll talk a little about the relation between epidemic and music, polio and jazz. Here's #polio survivor singer Connie Boswell, in the wheelchair, with her singing sisters
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To mark @IntlJazzDay here's some of my jazz research FREE. You've got time to read! * EU jazz festivals academia.edu/37517236/_Europ… * Winifred Atwell researchgate.net/publication… * Jazz & disability researchgate.net/publication… * decolonising UK jazz festivals georgemckay.org/wp-content/u…
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Congratulations to Loes Rusch from @rhythmchanges & @CHIMEproject on publication of her Dutch & English history of 35 years of Zeeland’s New Music Festival. Includes wonderful evocative archive fotos like John Cage foraging & William Breuker doing a soprano sax/hoover/snare solo
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CFP for our 5th @rhythmchanges international jazz studies 2017 conference is now online. Theme: #resoundingjazz rhythmchanges.net/call-for-p…
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CFP: @rhythmchanges Re/Sounding Jazz, Amsterdam, 31 Aug-3 Sept rhythmchanges.net/ Deadline 1 March 2017 @royalmusical @AMS_musicology
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Our own @georgemckay_ chairing a panel on networks and scenes in European jazz @eurojazz50
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'@jazzfest celebrates local traditions, but has become a locus of newly created & invented traditions itself' chimeproject.eu/ #Jazz
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See our new blog - @wvandeleur discusses @jazzfest, its heritage, rituals and tradition chimeproject.eu/new-orleans-… #NewOrleans #Jazz #Heritage
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Registration is open for the 4th @rhythmchanges conference, Jazz Utopia, @MyBCU 14 - 17 Apr 2016 bit.ly/1TPPfdP
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Want to know more about the ideas behind the @CHIMEproject logo? @wvandeleur explains chimeproject.eu
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Report on @CHIMEproject involvement @LondonJazzFest feat. @nickgebhardt66 @wvandeleur @Beth_Perry_SURF @profofpop chimeproject.eu/chime-at-the…
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The @CHIMEproject is now live! Please visit our website and follow us for project updates chimeproject.eu/ #Jazz #Heritage #Festivals
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Jazz, utopian longing and dystopian fantasies: great call for papers rhythmchanges.net/jazz-utopi… @rhythmchanges @HERA_Research
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Jose Dias on use of 'jazz' in EU official discourse as idealised notion of cross-cultural practice & dialogue @rhythmchanges #rcjazz2014 – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In piano panel @rhythmchanges conference K Fellezs quotes Robert Glasper: 'jazz is like an old folks home on bingo night' #rcjazz2014 – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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