Two lectures of master degree level are organized in the frame of the Montreux Jazz Digital Project, taking place within the SHS (Social and Human Sciences) program of the EPFL College of Humanities. The first lecture focuses on musicological aspects around the Montreux Jazz festival and/or archives, while the second one is linked to the Montreux Jazz Memories project, gathering, analyzing, and adding value to the collection of interviews and testimonies from staff, employees, artists, and publics of the festival:
Music, Politics and Society by Constance Frei and Grégory Rauber:
- list of the subjects addressed by the students those last years. Some students’ works are published (in French).
Montreux Jazz Memories, Heritage and Digitization by Alexandre Camus, Alain Dufaux and Florence Graezer Bideau:
- Article published about this lecture, EPFL magazine, 2021
- Recent podcasts created by the students, as published on the Montreux Jazz Memories gallery of our partner notreHistoire.ch
- Video recordings of the presentations performed in May 2020 by the five groups of students (in French).