Dead Air: Jazz, Breath and Ghosts
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Dead Air: Jazz, Breath and Ghosts
In this collaborative talk, we consider the improvisatory practice of emplaced disembodiment known as “haunting.” What does it mean to haunt, and be haunted by, the charismatic lofts and jazz clubs of the past? How is the resolute “nowness”
of musicking complicated by the unknowable histories it draws upon and the phantasmic futures it projects? What literal and figurative atmospheres blow through this music? Join us for a conversation with Ben Ratliff and J. Martin Daughtry.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 6pm
Casa Hispanica
612 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Free and open to everyone but registration is recommended. To register for the conference CLICK HERE.
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