Ingrid Monson

Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment. She won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music for her Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1996). She was also a founding member of the nationally known Klezmer Conservatory Band, and plays trumpet with jazz and salsa bands.

Monson was previously Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis; she also taught at University of Michigan, Harvard (as Visiting Professor) and University of Chicago. She has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Musicology from NYU, and a B.M. from New England Conservatory. Monson is currently working on two books: one on the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on the history of jazz, and one on the musics of the African Diaspora.

Contact information: Music Deparment