Tato série se noří do fascinujícího světa jazzu, ale ne jako pouhé hudební žánrové zkoumání. Zkoumá hluboké společenské a kulturní kontexty, které formovaly tento dynamický hudební styl. Každý svazek odhaluje, jak byl jazz v různých obdobích a prostředích vnímán a interpretován jako forma uměleckého vyjádření i společenského komentáře. Je to poutavé čtení pro milovníky hudby, sociologie i kulturní historie.
Jazz has never been simply music. From its very inception, jazz has been imbued with social meaning. This is what makes this kind of music an interesting field of study not only for the music historian, but also for the sociologist and the cultural historian. This title deals with this music.
This book studies the different roles that jazz played in Poland in the course of the 20th century, from its implementation in the 1920s, through World War II to the Third Polish Republic. The author, sociologist and jazz musician, depicts how jazz was forbidden under Stalin, accepted and even supported in the Polish People’s Republic and then welcomed in the open market of the Third Republic. The discussion of jazz in this work covers several levels: political, symbolic, cultural, and economic. The main point of the presented analysis are changes within jazz music itself, within the community of jazz musicians and relations between the field of jazz and the field of politics.
Christian Schmidt-Rost vergleicht die Jazzszenen in der DDR und Polen und beschäftigt sich mit den transatlantischen Transferprozessen, in die sie eingebunden waren. Sein Buch gibt einen Einblick in den vielfältigen Umgang mit der amerikanischen Musik Jazz im Kalten Krieg. Dabei werden die Handlungsspielräume von Herrschenden und Jazzern – Musikern, Organisatoren, Journalisten, Fans – in den beiden staatssozialistischen Gesellschaften untersucht und deren Wandel seit den 1950er Jahren nachvollzogen. Der Autor macht deutlich, wie es den Jazzern gelang, über Medien, Verbände und Festivals blockübergreifende Kommunikationsräume zu etablieren, während die Musik zugleich für immer mehr Akteure zu einem Geschäft wurde. Seine Studie zeigt, wie Jazz im Kalten Krieg ebenso polarisierte wie verband.
During the Cold War, jazz became a cultural weapon that was employed by both sides. In the Eastern Bloc countries, new jazz scenes emerged. This volume explores the history and roles of jazz in Poland, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and the Baltic States by means of several case studies.
In the 20th century, jazz was an important artistic form. Depending on the particular European country, jazz music carried different social, political and aesthetic meanings. It brought challenges in the areas of racial issues, the politics of the Cold War between East and West, and in the exploration of boundaries of artistic freedom. In socialist Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Poland, the situation began to change after 1956 and then 1968, when the ideologists shifted from the aesthetics of socialist realism to postmodernism. In Western countries such as France and Italy, jazz transformed from a modern to a postmodern period. This volume deals with the impact of these changes on the career development of jazz musicians – even beyond 1989 – in terms of various phenomena such as emigration, child prodigies, multiculturalism, multi-genre approaches, or female jazz musicians.