Announcement:
The Center for the Humanities, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will offer a 2005 summer institute for public high school teachers. The theme of the institute is Teaching Jazz as American Culture and will feature an examination of the impact of jazz on literature, on fine art, on film (as a subject and on film scoring), and on American social history. The institute will also look at jazz and gender (Why we often think women can't play saxophones, trombones, trumpets, and drums as well as men?) and jazz and race. It is hoped that the institute will offer teachers new and engaging ways to teach popular music as a humanities subject, and it is hoped that this endeavor will lead to new ways to teach the humanities, to new ways to see the humanities as cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary. A number of very good scholars will participate in the institute as instructors and the participating teachers will have the chance to listen to live jazz music every week.