Program Highlights

The instrumental ensembles such as the Jazz Ensemble and the Geneseo String Band offer performance opportunities for interested students.
Students may conduct original research and archival work in the college’s James W. Kimball Collection for Traditional Music and Dance in New York State.

Jazz and American Music Studies

Why choose jazz and American music studies at Geneseo?

This minor approaches the study of music as a humanistic discipline, critically examining a variety of musical practices and their histories. Students will connect American music to disciplines outside music, drawing on coursework in American studies, Black studies, English, and history.