Wilkes University
March 8, 2021|Submitted by: Today@Wilkes
The Division of Global Cultures introduces the second in a series of guest lectures
this semester with “
Music as a Globalizing Force,” presented by Adam Zanolini,
at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, via Zoom.
Ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist
Adam Zanolini is a jazz artist and arts organizer based in Chicago, originally from Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His
PhD research examined the sustainability of Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago,
focusing on key figures in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
(AACM), a Black musicians collective founded in 1965.
Currently, he is the Executive Director of Elastic Arts Foundation, a Chicago multi-arts