James Gordon Williams
Research and Teaching Interests
- Practices of Resistance in Afro-diasporic Improvisation and Composition
- Performance of Racial Identity through Music Technology
- Epistemologies of African American Music
- Digital Humanities
Education
- Ph.D. Integrative Studies in Music, University of California, San Diego
- M.A. Music, New York University
- B.Mus. New England Conservatory of Music
Current Course
Masters of Black Music AAS 408/608
Past Courses
- Masters of Black Music
- Introduction to African American Music
- History of Jazz – 1940 to Present
- Survey of African Music
Selected Publications
Unrepeatable Life by James Gordon Williams, Audio CD, Label: CD Baby, ASIN: B000CAJI6U
“Improvising On Feedback Piano: Aesthetic Discourses Behind Technology and Sound” in Rethinking Improvisation: Artistic Explorations & Conceptual Writing, Lund University, Sweden, 2013
“African American Influences On American Music” in Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture, Greenwood, 2013
“Crossing Cinematic and Sonic Bar Lines: T-Pain’s Can’t Believe It“ Upcoming in UCLA’s Ethnomusicology Review Volume 19 2014
News
(May 22, 2018)
Humanities Center Fellows praised for "disciplinary rigor, interdisciplinary creativity, ethical engagement"
(Feb. 8, 2018)
Late musician’s commitment to social justice overlooked, James Gordon Williams says
(Nov. 16, 2015)
A&S professor James Gordon Williams makes ‘faculty debut’ with concert of original music
(April 1, 2015)
Creative Musician James Gordon Williams to Headline Local Events