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Dowling College Presents 'Jazz: The Music That Made The Twenties Roar'
Award-winning author and historian Dr. Reid Badger visits Dowling College's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale on Wednesday, February 25 to present "Jazz The Music That Made The Twenties Roar". The event, part of Dowling's yearlong celebration of African-American culture, will take place in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room beginning at 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is credited with first describing the American Twenties as "The Jazz Age". Dr. Badger's presentation argues that he was right; that the early jazz and jazz-influenced music of the 1920s does indeed reflect the moods and major changes that characterized those formative years of modern American society.
Dr. Badger is Professor Emeritus of interdisciplinary American Studies at the University of Alabama, where he taught courses in American intellectual history, literature, and music from 1974 until 1998. He is currently an adjunct Professor of Humanities at New York University and a lecturer for the New York Council for the Humanities.
Dr. Badger is the author of two books and editor of a third, in addition to numerous articles and book chapters. He has written for New York Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, and The Birmingham News, and has served as a writer/contributor to Public Television and History Channel productions including, most recently, the documentary films, "Dvorak and America" and "American Masters – Ralph Ellison: An American Journey".
His book, "A Life of Ragtime", a biography of American music pioneer James Reese Europe, received the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
An authority on the history of world's fairs and American music, Dr. Badger has been an invited lecturer at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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