{"product_id":"the-return-of-jazz-joachim-ernst-berendt-and-west-german-cultural-change-9781845455668","title":"The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tJazz 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe producer, writer and critic Berendt (1922-2000) remains a central, albeit for some a problematic, figure in the history of relatively recent German jazz and European jazz in general. Andrew Wright Hurley offers a welcome, closely researched study of a man who a decade after his untimely death continues to divide opinion among musicians, fellow producers and critics\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJazz Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ean eminently readable and thoughtful inquiry into the life and works of a man whose career in many ways parallels not just the West German jazz scene, but West German culture as a whole between 1950 and 1980. His work is thus both a valuable introduction to Berendt’s thought as well as an important intervention into current scholarship about the role of global and American culture in the development and contestation of West German identity.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerman Politics \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"In \u003c\/i\u003eThe Return of Jazz\u003ci\u003e, Andrew Wright Hurley has admirably demonstrated Berendt's influence upon the emerging jazz scene of the early Federal Republic. Hurley shows how Cold War politics and rejection of the National Socialist past heightened Berendt's sense of mission. For Berendt, jazz was more than an avocation; it was a program for social and cultural reform. It is to Hurley's credit that he raises so many important issues surrounding jazz's development in the second half of the twentieth century.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eH-German\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"This is a benchmark study, in showing why a subject that has been overlooked in jazz historiography should not have been. Its importance lies not just in recognising the importance of a major mediator and 'enabler' of postwar jazz; it also models the late twentieth century shift of the jazz centre of gravity away from the US and towards international fusions. In its balancing of cultural theory with the most painstaking empirical research this is, quite simply, essential reading not just in jazz scholarship, but in the larger field of cultural history and its methodologies.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e Cultural History, University of Turku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: JOACHIM-ERNST BERENDT AND THE POSTWAR LEGITIMATION OF JAZZ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Jazz and the divide between serious and entertainment music\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Dance as escape?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Jazz greetings to and from the East?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Jazz, race, and colourblindness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: JAZZ MEETS THE (NEW) OLD WORLD: EUROPEANIZING JAZZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e The blues of German jazz\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Emancipation and the dilemma of \u003ci\u003eVolk\u003c\/i\u003e-jazz\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlobe Unity\u003c\/i\u003e: Free jazz meets European New Music\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Emancipation from the Jazz Pope\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e On the uses of European jazz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: JAZZ MEETS THE OTHER WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Marco Polo of jazz\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e The \u003ci\u003eGoethe Institut’s\u003c\/i\u003e jazz ambassadors strike up\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Japanesing jazz, or: \u003ci\u003ekimono\u003c\/i\u003e today, swing tomorrow\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Doing the \u003ci\u003ebossa\u003c\/i\u003e in Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e The 1967 world-jazz encounters: An East-West jazz-divan?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Finding the \u003ci\u003eBlut und Boden\u003c\/i\u003e in African roots\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/b\u003e Berendt and the utopia of \u003ci\u003eWeltmusik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tChronology\u003cbr\u003e \tDiscography\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042980528471,"sku":"9781845455668","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455668.jpg?v=1750956503","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-return-of-jazz-joachim-ernst-berendt-and-west-german-cultural-change-9781845455668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}