Jazz und Sprache – Sprache und Jazz

Jazz and language, language and jazz": The 5th Darmstadt Jazz Forum in October 1997 was about the influence of jazz on literature, about the influence of literature and literary aesthetics on the understanding of jazz, about poetry and jazz projects in the USA and in Europe, about the realization of linguistic-literary models on a small and large scale, about the linguistic nature or linguistic similarity of jazz improvisation, about references 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 - also 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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