{"id":184,"date":"2013-12-10T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:12:02","slug":"christopher-capizzi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/speakers\/christopher-capizzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Capizzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/12\/Capizzi-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/12\/Capizzi-headshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Capizzi headshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-616 alignleft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher Capizzi<\/em><br \/>\n<em>University of Pittsburgh<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em>A PhD student in jazz studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Capizzi presented conference papers at the Society for\u00a0American Music and American Musicological Society-Allegheny chapter and went on to receive a research grant from the Institute of\u00a0Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. He is a jazz pianist, a composer and teaches jazz piano and improvisation at Carnegie Mellon\u00a0University School of Music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk Title:\u00a0Suffering, Levinas, and Modern Jazz: The Liturgical Music of Mary Lou Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In early liturgical works like <em>Mass<\/em>\u00a0and <em>St. Martin de Porres: Black Christ of the Andes<\/em>, Mary Lou Williams was working out a concept of &#8216;sacred jazz&#8217; that draws from black American music &#8211; particularly the Negro spiritual, blues and modern jazz &#8211; and engages directly with black suffering and the origins of jazz. This project tries to access Williams\u2019 liturgical and sacred music through a consideration of black suffering. Through Williams&#8217; writings and upon analysis of score examples taken from major works like <em>Mass<\/em> and <em>Black Christ of the Andes<\/em>, she emerges as composer, scholar and documentarian of black American music. Via the lens of Levinas in his essay <em>Useless Suffering,<\/em>\u00a0this thesis asks if\u00a0 jazz and Williams\u2019 music might be explained as the expression of &#8216;certain psychological content&#8217; acquired as suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Capizzi University of Pittsburgh A PhD student in jazz studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Capizzi presented conference papers at the Society for\u00a0American Music and American Musicological Society-Allegheny chapter and went on to receive a research grant from the Institute of\u00a0Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. He is a jazz pianist, a composer and teaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions\/617"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}