Conference Program
Friday, 26 September 2008
18:00 - 19:00 Josef Jařab: Marching Regimes and Syncopating Drummers: The Stories of Jazz in Unfree Societies
Saturday, 27 September 2008
I. USA - Europe
9:00 - 9:20 John Gennari: The Other Side of the Curtain: U.S. Jazz Discourse, 1950s America, and the Cold War
9:20 - 9:40 Rüdiger Ritter: Americanization and Counter-Americanization – Jazz in Western and Eastern Radio Stations
9:40 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:20 Claire Levy: East and West in Dialogue? On the Intercultural Aspects of Jazz History
10:20 - 10:40 Yvetta Kajanova: Additional Components and Components of Meaning in Jazz in the Period of Communism Exemplified on Czech and Slovak Jazz
10:40 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
II. Two ways of jazz: Poland and SU
11:30 - 11:50 Martin Lücke: The campaign against the jazz in the USSR – 1945-1953
11:50 - 12:10 Michel Abeßer: Jazz in the Soviet Union 1953 and 1964 – Cultural Opening, Nostalgia and Isolation
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 15:00 lunch break
15:00 - 15:20 Marta Domurat: Jazz - Press in the People's Republic of Poland. The significance of "Jazz" and "Jazz Forum" in the past and in the present
15:20 - 15:40 Piotr Baron: Development of „national styles“ in Jazz
15:40 - 16:00 Piotr Pietraszewski: To be a Jazzman in Poland. A sociological Analysis
16:00 - 16:20 Discussion
16:20 - 16:50 coffee break
III. Between East and West: The Baltics
16:50 - 17:10 Tiit Lauk: Estonian Jazz under the Conditions of Soviet Power in 1940 - 1967
17:10 - 17:30 Heli Reimann: Developing Musical Identity under Conditions of Soviet Regime: A Portrait of Jazz Artist Lembit Saarsalu
17:30 - 17:50 Ruth Leiserowitz: Jazz in Soviet Lithuania – a nonconformist niche
17:50 - 18:10 Discussion
Sunday, 28 September 2008
IV. Variety of East Central European Jazz scenes
9:00 - 9:20 Gergö Havadi: An individual subculture in Narratives and reports of spies. Hungarian Jazz in Socialist Period
9:20 - 9:40 Adrian Popan: Jazz Revival in Romania 1964 - 1971
9:40 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:20 Petr Motycka: Jazz Section: Platform of Freedom in CSSR (Prazhske jazzove dny and publishing acitivities)
10:20 - 10:40 Christian Schmidt-Rost: Freedom within limitations – interplay of the PRP’s and GDR’s jazz scene
10:40 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
V. Jazz and Art
11:30 - 11:50 Gertrud Pickhan: Visualizations of Jazz: Soviet and Polish Film
11:50 - 12:10 Marina Dmitrieva: Jazz and Dress. Labukhi and Stilyagi in Soviet Russia of the 50s and 60s
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 15:20 Wiebke Janssen: Rock’n’Roll – „Halbstarke“ in both German states in the 1950ies
15:20 - 15:40 Karl Brown: Dance Hall Days: Jazz and Hooliganism in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956
15:40 - 16:00 Michael Dörfel: Negro lyrics and Negro music. The Jazz and Literature discs of AMIGA
16:00 - 16:20 Discussion
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 - 17:20 Bert Noglik: Résumé
17:20 - 17:40 Final discussion