The return of jazz
Subtitle: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German cultural change
By: Andrew Wright Hurley.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781845455668
Subjects: Berendt, Joachim-Ernst, -- 1922-2000; Jazz -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History; Jazz -- Germany -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and the postwar legitimation of jazz. Jazz and the divide between serious and entertainment music ; Dance as escape? ; Jazz greetings to and from the East? ; Jazz, race, and colorblindness; title: Europeanizing jazz. The blues of German jazz ; Emancipation and the dilemma of Volk-jazz ; Globe unity : free jazz meets European new music ; Emancipation from the Jazz Pope ; On the uses of European jazz; title: Jazz meets the other. The Marco Polo of jazz ; The Goethe Institut's jazz ambassadors strike up ; Japanesing jazz, or, kimono today, swing tomorrow ; Doing the bossa in Berlin ; The 1967 world-jazz encounters: an East-West jazz-divan? ; Finding the Blut und Boden in African roots.