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Searching for Charles Johnson: The Outlier and the Ordinary in Jazz

Finding Jazz in the Jazz-As-Business Metaphor

Plagiarizing your own autobiography, and other strange tales: Miles Davis, jazz discourse, and the aesthetic of silence

Ken Prouty is the area chair of musicology at the Michigan State University College of Music.

He's been with MSU since 2007. At Michigan State, Dr. Prouty teaches courses in jazz history, American music, and popular music. His recent research focuses on the nature of jazz community and the culture of jazz pedagogy. He is a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences in the U.S. and Europe, and he has published articles in academic journals such as Critical Studies in Improvisation, Popular Music and Society, and Journal of Music History Pedagogy, to name a few.

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American Music

Jazz

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A Brief History Of Jazz Education, Pt. 1

Associate Professor of Musicology and Jazz Studies

Ken Prouty, associate professor of musicology and jazz studies, talks about jazz music's impact on history.

To read more, go to http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/faculty-conversations-ken-prouty/

MSU Faculty conversations: Ken Prouty

Matt LoRusso MSU Jazz Recital

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