Informationen zu "Harald Kisiedu, European Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany 1950-1975"
Verlag: Wolke Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Verlagsnummer: 9783955931186
EAN: 9783955931186
ISBN: 978-3-95593-118-6
Beschreibung
This book is a historical and interpretive study of the movement of jazz
experimentalism in West and East Germany between the years 1950 and 1975. It
complicates the narratives advanced by previous scholars by arguing that
engagement with black musical methods, concepts, and practices remained
significant for the emergence of the German jazz experimentalism movement. In
a seemingly paradoxical fashion, this engagement with black musical knowledge
enabled the formation of more self-reliant musical concepts and practices.
Rather than viewing the German jazz experimentalism movement in terms of
dissociation from their African American spiritual fathers, this book
presents the movement as having decisively contributed to the decentering of
still prevalent jazz historiographies in which the centrality of the US is
usually presupposed. Going beyond both US-centric and Eurocentric
perspectives, this study contributes to scholarship that accounts for jazzs
global dimension and the transfer of ideas beyond nationally conceived spaces.
