Age, Biography and Wiki

John Szwed was born on 1936, is an American music scholar. Discover John Szwed's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As N/A
Occupation N/A
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 1936
Birthday 1936
Birthplace N/A
Nationality

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 1936. He is a member of famous with the age 88 years old group.

John Szwed Height, Weight & Measurements

At 88 years old, John Szwed height not available right now. We will update John Szwed's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Dating & Relationship status

He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Not Available
Sibling Not Available
Children Not Available

John Szwed Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is John Szwed worth at the age of 88 years old? John Szwed’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from . We have estimated John Szwed's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income

John Szwed Social Network

Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

1936

John F. Szwed (born 1936) is the John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, African American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, where he previously served as the Center's Director and Professor of Music and Jazz Studies.

Szwed is the author of many books on jazz and American music, including studies of Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax, Billie Holiday and Harry Everett Smith.

1958

Szwed received a B.S. in business administration and economics from Marietta College in 1958.

He also studied trombone and music theory and played professionally for twelve years; as an undergraduate, he worked in a steel mill and performed at roadhouses, country clubs, college dances and speakeasies in Ohio and West Virginia.

1959

Thereafter, he enrolled at Ohio State University, where he earned a second bachelor's degree in communications in 1959, an M.A. in communications in 1960 and a Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology in 1965.

His graduate school adviser was anthropology pioneer Erika Bourguignon, who encouraged him to bring to his work what he already knew and experienced.

His work as an anthropologist and folklorist includes field studies in Newfoundland, the Georgia Sea Islands, and Trinidad.

1982

From 1982 to 2008, Szwed was John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University.

1997

Szwed's study of Sun Ra, Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra, was published in 1997.

2003

A Miles Davis biography, So What: The Life of Miles Davis, followed in 2003.

2005

Szwed wrote Doctor Jazz, a booklet about Jelly Roll Morton for the 2005 issue of The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax on Rounder Records.

The booklet won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.

2008

Szwed was appointed term Professor of Music and Jazz Studies at Columbia University in 2008, a position he held through 2014.

2010

In 2010, Szwed published a biography of Alan Lomax, the folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector of folk music of the 20th century, entitled The Man Who Recorded the World.

2011

From 2011 to 2014, he was Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia.

He has also taught at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Director of the Center for Urban Ethnography and Chair of the Department of Folklore.

Szwed is married to Marilyn Anderson Szwed and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2015

In Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth (2015), Szwed analyses the art of Billie Holiday's singing and the construction of her life as a mythic paradigm of African American suffering.

Szwed argues that Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, is a generally accurate account of Holiday's life, and that Holiday's co-writer, William Dufty, was forced to water down or suppress material by the threat of legal action.

The New Yorker reviewer Richard Brody writes: "In particular, Szwed traces the stories of two important relationships that are missing from the book—with Charles Laughton, in the nineteen-thirties, and with Tallulah Bankhead, in the late nineteen-forties—and of one relationship that’s sharply diminished in the book, her affair with Orson Welles around the time of Citizen Kane."