This past weekend I attended the Rhythm Changes conference, whose topic was Jazz & national Identity. The conference committee generously allowed me to present my thesis arguing for comprehensive ethnographic enquiry in Australian jazz as a poster presentation there. You can hear me outlining the thesis in a fairly expedient manner (about 60 seconds) at the conference blog here.
The Rhythm Changes project has been funded as part of the Humanities in the European Research Area’s (HERA) theme, ‘Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity’, a joint research programme funded by 13 national funding agencies to ‘create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new
insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe’.
