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The home page of Columbia University.

Center for the Study of Ethnivity and Race (CSER)
Fosters the analysis of contemporary and historical social formations from the perspective of minoritized social groups.

CUArts
Columbia University's comprehensive gateway to the arts on campus and in the community

Columbia University Department of Music
One of the oldest and most distinguished departments of music at any American university.

Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature
The founding department and administrative home of the Center for Jazz Studies.

Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS)
Columbia’s home for the critical examination of contemporary black politics, social relations, culture and history.

Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG)
The locus of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and teaching at Columbia University.

Miller Theatre
Columbia University’s performing arts center.

WKCR-FM
One of the most diverse student-run radio stations in the United States, featuring extensive engagement with jazz.

In the World

Jazz-Institut Darmstadt

Institute of Jazz Studies

Jazz Institute of Chicago

Chicago Jazz Archive

(AACM) Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians—Chicago Chapter

(AACM) Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians—New York Chapter
The internationally renowned musician-run experimental music collective.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

Jazz Studies Online

Jazz Studies Online's rich collection of digital resources–journal articles, books and book chapters, video and audio, teaching materials–is proving tremendously exciting for jazz scholars, musicians, educators, journalists, and the general public. More

Louis Armstrong Visiting Professorship

Generous support from the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation enables the Center for Jazz Studies to sponsor Armstrong Visiting Professors to teach jazz-related academic courses and curate public programs. More

The Conversations Series

With support from the Ford Foundation, this series of public discussions explores the role of improvisation in the widest array of fields and practices, showing how ideas from jazz culture resonate with the intellectual currents of our time. More

Jazz Study Group

The interdisciplinary Jazz Study Group meets regularly to explore new methods of studying the history of jazz, its social context, and its ramifications as a global cultural phenomenon that has influenced all of the arts, the humanities, and even the sciences. More

Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project

A New York State Music Fund grant enables the Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project, which presents leading artists in programs that explore and interpret jazz music through a variety of perspectives, to a community where the roots of jazz run deep. More

Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice

An international research team, more than thirty scholars from eighteen universities, as well as twelve community groups, explore seven research areas related to improvisation, defining a new interdisciplinary field. More