Christopher J. "Christi Jay" Wells is assistant professor of musicology at Arizona State University's School of Music and affiliate faculty with ASU’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. They received their doctorate in 2014 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where their dissertation on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb and swing music in Harlem during the Great Depression received the Society for American Music’s Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award and UNC’s Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology. They have also received Videmus’s Edgar A. Toppin Award for Outstanding Research in African American Music, a Morroe Berger/Benny Carter Jazz Research Fellowship from the Institute of Jazz Studies, and the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music. A social jazz and blues dancer for over a decade, Wells regularly places highly in blues dance competitions and is a frequent lecturer and clinician at national and international events, having recently taught blues and jazz dance classes and lectured on dance history in Seoul, South Korea and Hong Kong. Professor Wells is currently writing a book about the history of jazz music’s ever-shifting relationship with popular dance (under contract with Oxford University Press) and has published articles in the journals Women & Music, Jazz & Culture, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Daedalus as well as providing multiple chapters on jazz dance history topics for volumes in the Oxford Handbook series.
Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 2014
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 365 | Popular Music and Race |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
MHL 798 | Research Colloquium |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 394 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 632 | Applied Musicology |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MUS 354 | Popular Music |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 342 | Music History II |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 632 | Applied Musicology |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |