Jazz und Sprache – Sprache und Jazz

“Jazz and Language, Language and Jazz”: The 5th Darmstadt Jazz Forum in October 1997 focused on the influence of jazz on literature, the influence of literature and literary aesthetics on the understanding of jazz, poetry-and-jazz projects in both the U.S. and Europe, and the adaptation of literaryliterary texts on both a small and large scale, the linguistic nature or language-like quality of jazz improvisation, and the connections between talking about music (i.e., jazz criticism) and the music itself. In addition to musicologists, literary scholars, sociologists, and journalists, musicians—and in this case, of course, writers as well—had their say.

From the contents: Wolfram Knauer: Jazz - Language - Poetry - Criticism. Some basic remarks Stephan Richter: Magic Books and a Jam Session. The field of tension between literature, literary theory and jazz Heinz Steinert: "... and in all of this, the gesture of music is borrowed from the voice that speaks." On the complicated working alliance of the genre "jazz and poetry" Ernst Jandl & Dieter Glawischnig: .....'Texte und Jazz'..... Mike Westbrook: The Westbrook Song Book Ekkehard Jost: On the linguistic character of music in general and jazz in particular Hans Ulrich Engelmann: Zus szenischen Kantate "Die Mauer" Wolfram Knauer: From Ellington to Malcol X. On dealing with lyrics/librettii m jazz George Gruntz: Jazz - What kind of theater? Christian Broecking: Much ado about big words. Even nasty sentences can swing. Wynton Marsalis and the verbalization of jazz in the 90s.

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