Event Title
Skrontch Music
Location
Nutt Auditorium
Start Date
4-3-2020 7:30 PM
Publication Date
March 2020
Description
Skrontch Music is project led by saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Byron Asher that explores the histories and lineages of jazz in the South through contemporary soundscapes. Featuring a ten-piece New Orleans-based ensemble, Skrontch Music’s debut album incorporates elements of sound collage and text from primary source documents to address the intertwined histories of the formation of New Orleans jazz and anti–Jim Crow activism. The ensemble will present material that uses similar techniques to investigate the blues and the radically political and musical themes that are embedded within them. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Department of Music.
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Asher, Byron; University of Mississippi. Department of Music; and University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, "Skrontch Music" (2020). All In. All Year Events Calendar. 24.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/all_in/2020/events/24
Skrontch Music
Nutt Auditorium
Skrontch Music is project led by saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Byron Asher that explores the histories and lineages of jazz in the South through contemporary soundscapes. Featuring a ten-piece New Orleans-based ensemble, Skrontch Music’s debut album incorporates elements of sound collage and text from primary source documents to address the intertwined histories of the formation of New Orleans jazz and anti–Jim Crow activism. The ensemble will present material that uses similar techniques to investigate the blues and the radically political and musical themes that are embedded within them. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Department of Music.