بازگشت جاز: یوهیم-ارنست برنت و تغییرات فرهنگی آلمان غربی

Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi era. German musicians began, in a highly productive way, to question their all-too-eager adoption of American culture and how they sought to make valid artistic statements reflecting their identity as Europeans. This book explores the significance of some of Berendt's most important writings and record productions. Particular attention is given to the Jazz Meets the World encounters that he engineered with musicians from Japan, Tunisia, Brazil, Indonesia, and India. This proto-world music demonstrates how some West Germans went about creating a post-nationalist identity after the Third Reich. Berendt's powerful role as the West German Jazz Pope is explored, as is the groundswell of criticism directed at him in the wake of 1968. "Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi era. German musicians began, in a highly productive way, to question their all-too-eager adoption of American culture and how they sought to make valid artistic statements reflecting their identity as Europeans. This book explores the significance of some of Berendt's most important writings and record productions. Particular attention is given to the 'Jazz Meets the World' encounters that he engineers with musicians from Japan, Tunisia, Brazil, Indonesia, and India. This proto-'world music' demonstrates how some West Germans went about creating a post-nationalist identity after the Third Reich. Berendt's powerful role as the West German 'Jazz Pope' is explored, as is the groundswell of criticism directed at him in the wake of 1968"--Back cover 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 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 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.