FUAIM Lecture: Prof. Gayle Murchison, "More Than a Labor of Love: Mary Lou Williams as Jazz Entrepreneur.” 11am-1pm, Ó Riada Hall

6 Apr 2023

11am-1pm, Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sunday’s Well, or via MS Teams (link available on request from Melanie Marshall, ml.marshall@ucc.ie

Gayle is Associate Professor of Music at the College of William and Mary.

This week, the FUAIM lecture will be given by Prof. Gayle Murchison. Gayle is Associate Professor of Music at the College of William and Mary. The author of The American Musical Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetic of Copland’s New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 (The University of Michigan Press, 2012), her research interests include William Grant Still, Mary Lou Williams, the music of social and cultural movements such the Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights Movements; and the music of Zap Mama and Afro-European studies. Her talk is titled “More Than a Labor of Love: Mary Lou Williams as Jazz Entrepreneur.”