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Also, women typically occupy a lower faculty rank. Further, women are outnumbered in nearly every conceivable category: there are fewer women than men instructing popular jazz instruments and leading ensembles, as well as teaching academic subjects such as music history, theory, and composition. It found an overwhelming gender disparity among jazz faculty members in the United States, with men outnumbering women by six to one. Her study considers the number of female-identified jazz educators in comparison to their male-identified counterparts, and looks at differences in job titles and primary teaching responsibilities. Pellegrinelli’s study collected publicly available information from over 200 colleges, conservatories, and universities, resulting in the first quantitative data of gender representation among faculty members who teach jazz. Sometimes doing transformative work in jazz and gender means shedding light on inequities within different areas of jazz and jazz education in order to establish an undeniable baseline from which we can all improve, creating a better future for artists and the artform itself.ĭr. One of the many areas where gender disparity still persists, unfortunately, is on college and university campuses across our nation. Lara Pellegrinelli in the publishing of her new study, Jazz Counts: Measuring the Jazz Faculty Gender Gap in Higher Education. Recently, we have been honored and grateful to support the work of Dr. In working toward this vision, it has been important for the institute to collaborate, amplify, and support the work of our colleagues across disciplines, as sustainable change can happen only through collective work. A cultural transformation has been needed for a long time, and though we are not there yet, we are experiencing noticeable momentum toward just-mindedness. However, there is still much to be done toward the goal of a more socially and politically progressive, more equitable “jazz space” where players, composers, teachers, writers, and other creative contributors represent a wider range of the gender spectrum. Over the last five years, JGJ’s work has continued to make strides in the areas of jazz education, performance, and advocacy in the arts. The institute’s mission is to recruit, teach, mentor, and advocate for musicians seeking to study or perform jazz, using both gender justice and racial justice as guiding principles. screening.The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (JGJ) was founded in 2018 with the aim to support and sustain a cultural transformation in jazz. A post-film discussion with Gerber and the film’s director will take place after the Sunday 6 p.m. “Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi” will screen at the Santy Auditorium Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m.

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It will premiere on Paramount Plus on Nov. The film has made the film festival circuit and had its theatrical release last month. And it's a beautiful way of intertwining music and storytelling.” “So, you're literally watching him create the score of the film, as you're watching the film. “All of those improvisations became the music of the film and the score,” he said. Gerber says they titled it a song film because it’s based on the many improvisations Bashi created at several of the locations that were important to the Japanese American incarceration. The word omoiyari means to have compassion. It was like about two and a half hours long, that first cut.” We got through our first cut and realized that it was, it was a lot.

And it kind of grew into this idea about being a film about oppression. “As they started filming, they kind of realized that there was a lot more to talk about than what he was planning on covering in this symphony short film,” Gerber said. What started as a short film as an accompaniment to violinist and pop star Kishi Bashi’s symphony performances about executive order 9066, which removed all Japanese Americans from the west coast during World War II, became a 75-minute feature documentary that took six years to make. Gerber, the documentary’s producer and co-director, studied film at the University of Utah but says he learned his craft working on projects that were shooting in the Salt Lake Valley. Just, how do we change where we’re going.” “There are many moments in the film where Kishi Bashi is with these other communities making music and making harmony and just it's such a beautiful way of expressing the pain of the past but also hope for the future. “What I love about this film and why I think song film is such a beautiful kind of combination of things, is music really brings people together,” Wang said.

Park City Film Executive Director Katy Wang says she was “blown away,” after seeing the film at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride earlier this year. The film is part of the Made in Utah, Raising Voices series.

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