Full Description
The increased circulation of people and ideas within Europe is not matched by an awareness of a shared history among its jazz community. In the course of almost a century, European jazz musicians not only produced a corpus of work worthy of much wider appreciation, but also adopted strategies to deal with a variety of situations, ranging from outright prohibition to survival in the market and institutions.
This volume provides an organic overview of European jazz history in order to serve as an inspiration for new generations of listeners and musicians independently of current marketing hype. It covers the linear narrative of jazz history in Europe from its inception to the year 2000 presented on a geographical basis country by country. Each article is authored by a jazz history specialist from the specific country contextualizing the music in the cultural landscape of that country, discussing the most influential figures of its development, and referencing the sometimes considerable literature available in the national language. An unprecedented pool of authors makes much of this information available in English for the first time.
Further chapters cover related subjects like popular music in Europe, the history of African-American entertainers before jazz, cross-national traditions like Gypsy and Jewish music, festivals, film and avant-garde music. The book also draws on the newly available resources created by the extensive work being done nationally by various jazz archives; chapters are supplemented by suggested listening lists and bibliographies.
Contents
Series editor's introduction
Alyn Shipton
European Jazz: Stories that needed to be told
Francesco Martinelli
Part 1: Western Europe
1 France
Xavier Prevost
2a Great Britain: 1900-1960
Alyn Shipton
2b Great Britain: 1950-2010. Late-flowering seeds of the triangular trade
Duncan Heining
3 Ireland
Cormac Larkin
4 Germany
Martin Pfleiderer
5 The Netherlands
Bert Vuijsje
6 Belgium
Jean-Pol Schroeder
Translated by Annie Shipton and Alyn Shipton
Additional information provided by Matthias Heyman
7 Luxembourg
Marc Demuth
Part 2: Scandinavia
8 Denmark
Tore Mortensen
9a Sweden: 1919-1969
Jan Bruer
9b Sweden: 1970-2000
Mans Wallgren
10 Finland
Juha Henriksson
11 Norway
Bjorn Stendahl
12 Iceland
Vernhardur Linnet
Part 3: Central Europe
13 Poland
Krystian Brodacki
Translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska
14 Czech Republic-Slovakia
Yvetta Kajanova
15 Hungary
Gabor Turi
16 Austria
Andreas Felber
17 Switzerland
Bruno Spoerri
Part 4: Eastern Europe
18 Russia: Ninety-five years in search of an identity
Cyril Moshkow
19 Belarus
Dzm tri Padbiarezski
Translated by Cyril Moshkow
20 Ukraine
Alexander Yudin
Part 5: The Western Mediterranean
21 Spain
Chema Garcia Martinez
22a Portugal: 1920-1974
Pedro Cravinho
22b Portugal: 1974-2010
Rui Eduardo Paes
23 Italy
Francesco Martinelli
Part 6: The Baltic states
24 Latvia
Indrikis Veitners
25 Lithuania
Ruta Skudiene
26 Estonia
Tiit Lauk
Part 7: South-east Europe
27 Greece
Sakis Papadimitriou
28 Former Yugoslavia
Mike Mazur
29 Romania
Virgil Mihaiu
30 Bulgaria
Vladimir Gadjev
Part 8: Europe/Asia
31 Turkey
Hulya Tuncag
32 Azerbaijan
Rain Sultanov
33 Armenia
Armen Manukyan
Part 9: Themes
34 Early African American Entertainers
Rainer E. Lotz
35 Django Reinhardt and jazz manouche
Michael Dregni
36 Jews and Jewish music
Gabriele Coen
37 The avant-garde: Black-and-White Atlantic dialogues, c. 1960s
Michael Heffley
38 Film
Selwyn Harris
39 Festivals
George McKay
