Jazz und Gesellschaft

Jazz has always been a socially relevant form of music. It accompanied the 20th century like no other genre, representing cultural developments that were also significant in other areas: the shift from Eurocentrism to Americanism, the introduction of new media for mass cultural exploitation, the primacy of interpretation over composition, and individual sound over the classical ideal of sound. The 7th Darmstadt Jazz Forum, whose presentations are summarized in this volume, dealt with the most diverse aspects of the mutual influences of jazz music and society, the living conditions of musicians in the US and Europe, questions of musical aesthetics, the topic of jazz and criticism, a critical review of sociological research on jazz, and much more.

With contributions by: Ralf-Peter Fuchs: New People and Modern Culture. Jazz and Its Audience in the German Postwar Press, 1945–1953 Christian Broecking: Adorno versus Berendt Revisited. What Remains of the Controversy in Merkur in 1953? Tobias Richtsteig: Jazz and Numbers. www.jazzpublikum.de—Basic Social Psychological Data in a Comparative Time Study. A Research Report Wolfram Knauer: "Wegweiser Jazz." Notes on the State of the German Jazz Scene Heinz Steinert: Music and Lifestyle. Why and How Jazz Music is Suitable for Marking a Social Position Wolfgang Sandner: Verbal Impressionism, Well-Meaning Apology. Problems of jazz criticism Ursel Schlicht: Individual music based on jazz. Working conditions and forms of expression of female musicians in Hamburg and New York Lewis A. Erenberg: Swing Left. Left-wing politics and big band jazz in the New Deal era Ingrid Monson: On jazz, history, and social theory. Theoretical background of "Freedom Sounds" George E. Lewis: "Gittin' to know y'all." On improvised music, the meeting of cultures, and the "racial imagination" Mike Heffley: From the anarchic to the archaic. On the theory of free improvisation Peter Niklas Wilson: On the social irrelevance of improvised music Ekkehard Jost: Reflections on the sociology of jazz.

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