{"id":1903,"date":"2011-10-12T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:44:20","slug":"mallory-lecture-will-focus-on-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2011\/mallory-lecture-will-focus-on-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallory Lecture will focus on jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1904\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/michael2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1904\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1904\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/michael2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/michael2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/michael2.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Borshuk<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>MAGNOLIA<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> Michael Borshuk will present \u201cHow to Look at Jazz and Why it Matters\u201d in an upcoming installment of the Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture Series. The presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, in the Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center at Southern Arkansas University.<\/p>\n<p>Borshuk is associate professor of African American literature at Texas Tech University. He is the author of <em>Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist LIterature<\/em>, which won the 2008 President\u2019s Book Award at Texas Tech for Outstanding Faculty Publication. He has also published numerous essays and encyclopedia entries on African American literature, music, and American modernism. For 10 years, from 1999 to 2009, he was a regular contributor on jazz to <em>Coda<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Liberal and Performing Arts, the Department of English and Foreign Languages, the Office of Multicultural Services, the Office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs, and private donations. The series was inaugurated during the 2004\/2005 academic year at SAU.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the lecture series is two fold: First, it is intended to honor Mallory and to remind us of her half-century of contributions to the educational systems and community of Southwest Arkansas, generally. Second, its mission is to bring outstanding scholars working in the fields of African American and African Diasporic Studies to share their work with the students, faculty and staff of Southern Arkansas University and with members of the surrounding community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGNOLIA \u2013 Michael Borshuk will present \u201cHow to Look at Jazz and Why it Matters\u201d in an upcoming installment of the Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture Series. The presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, in the Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center at Southern Arkansas University. 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