Dr. Carole Woodall: “Constan Town” Jazz: A guide to 1920s Beyoğlu

Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, November 10, 2014

G. Carole Woodall is an assistant professor of Modern Middle East history in the Departments of History and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.  Currently, she is working on her forthcoming book titled The Decadent Modern: Cocaine, Jazz, and the Charleston in 1920s Istanbul, and is part of a Turkish-US collaborative transmedia-documentary project based on early jazz in Istanbul.