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You are here: Home Leisure Arts & Culture An historical look at Jazz in Germany

17/06/2008An historical look at Jazz in Germany

The Harvard Center for European Studies Berlin Dialogues presents:Jazz in the Kulturnation


The Harvard Center for European Studies Berlin Dialogues presents:Jazz in the Kulturnation
Date: June 30, 2008
Time: 18.00-20.00, Reception at 17.30.
Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
Chair: Dr. Matthias Tischer, Researcher in musicology, University of Weimar. His current main fields of research are music in the former GDR, music under thecircumstances of the Cold War, and oral history

Speakers:
William Bares, Jazz pianist and ethnomusicologist specializing in African American music and popular music of the African diaspora. He is currently working on a PhD at Harvard University.
Dr. Wolfram Knauer, Musicologist and the director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt,Europe's largest public jazz archive; Board of editors for the scholarly journal Jazz Perspectives.
Prof. Penny von Eschen, Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan; Author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors play the Cold War (2004).
Detroit Gary Wiggins, Tenor and alto saxophone player; Member of "The Just No posse", a band that promotes world peace; Program Director for Music as Cultural Diplomacy at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin.
To register for this session, please email ces-ber@fas.harvard.edu by Friday,
June 27, 2008. **Please provide your affiliation, position and address when you
egister.**

1 reaction to this article

BoxCar1 posted: 17-07-2008 | 6:41 PM

If you're looking for a crash course in trad jazz, check out Dr. Michael White's Blue Crescent. I grabbed this at a show a couple days ago and it is great traditional jazz,

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