AmHund

Institut für Geschichte
Universität Salzburg

WS 2000/01

LEWIS A. ERENBERG

REINHOLD WAGNLEITNER

This seminar has been selected as one of the American Studies Links
Recommended by Richard P. Horwitz, University of Iow
http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/rhorwitz/popularculture.html

It is also featured under the Music section of the Dynamic Syllabi at the Crossroads Project
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/webcourses.html

S E M I N A R S Y L L A B U S

Jazz and American Popular Music at Home and Abroad

"Like Chaucer's poetry, which virtually begins the process of codifying the English language as a medium for sophisticated versification, [Louis] Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens provide a wide launching pad from which the history of the art of jazz takes flight."
Robert O'Meally, liner notes to the 4-CD set of Louis Armstrong´s The Complete Hot Five & Seven
(Sony/Columbia; ASIN: B00004WK37 August 2000)

"You can't play nothing on modern trumpet that doesn't come from him, not even modern shit. I can't even remember
a time when he sounded bad playing the trumpet. Never. Not even one time. He had great feeling up in his playing and he always played on the beat. I just loved the way he played and sang."
Miles Davis über Louis Armstrong

"My basic assumption is that black music is not only conspicuous within but crucial to, black culture. It has often been asserted that music--its place in society and its forms and functions--reflects the general character of the society. It has, however, rarely been suggested that music is potentially a basis for social structure. Yet I contend that music is not only a reflection of the values of black culture but, to some extent, the basis upon which it is built. This places on the importance of musical expression a stress alien to the tradition of Western cultures. Music in Western societies is thought of, in general terms, as either popular (low-brow, vulgar) or classical (exalted or art music). The popular music is then dismissed as inconsequential, while the art music is elevated above the realm of everyday activity. Western theory tends to detach art from life, just as Western man tends to detach himself from both art and life. In black American culture, popular music is the exalted music; it is art that is vulgar in that it is the creation, responsibility, and property of the total community. In this sense, music begins to emerge as a potential foundation for social activity."
Ben Sidran, Introduction, Black Talk

"What we play is life." Louis Armstrong

WWOZ-FM Live Radio from New Orleans

Oct 12 Introduction

What is Jazz? Four lectures by Dr. Billy Taylor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/Kennedy/Taylor/

Wolfram Knauer, Jazz: Ein Überblick über die Jazzgeschichte (Jazz Institut Darmstadt)
http://www.darmstadt.de/kultur/musik/jazz/history/Jazzhistory-7.htm

The History of Jazz Music
http://www.jazzhistory.f2s.com/

Richard V. Duffy, Jazz Definitions
http://www.jazzmagazine.com/Anglais/JazzDef.htm

Terry Teachout, "Jazz Masterpieces: A Finale" in Commentary, January 2000
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0001/teachout.html

Blues and Jazz Discography Link Page
http://www.jiubao.com/discographylinks.html

Louis Armstrong Centennial Celebration
http://www.uno.edu/armstrong/index.htm

Oct 19 What Is a A Social History of Jazz?

Theo Mäusli, "Ein Tanzorchester mit Schlagzeug ist eine Jazzband: Die Schwierigkeit, Jazz für sozialgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu definieren" in T. Mäusli, ed., Jazz und Sozialgeschichte (Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 1994): 23-34.

Eric Hobsbawm, "Jazz since 1960" in E. Hobsbawm, Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz (New York: The New Press, 1998): 281-292 and 344-345.

Ben Sidran, "Introduction" and "The Black Musician in Two Americas: Early History-1917" in B. Sidran, Black Talk: xi-xvii and 30-52.

S. Frederick Starr, Der frühe Jazz: Legende und Wirklichkeit” in Klaus Wolbert (ed.), That´s Jazz: Der Sound des 20. Jahrhunderts (Frankfurt am Main, 1997): 79-102.

Nov 9 Jazz as an Urban and Migratory Music

Burton Peretti, The Creation of Jazz : Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1992) : 1-75.

Amiri Baraka, (LeRoiJones), Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed from It (Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1995, 1st edition 1963): 1-16.

North by South: A Study of African American Migrations from South to North
http://www.northbysouth.org/

Kansas City: Paris of the Plains
http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/parisoftheplains/webexhibit/index.html

Nov 16 Jazz Capitals and "Race Mixture"

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's (New York, NY : Noonday Press, 1996): 303-386.

William Howland Kenney, Chicago Jazz: a Cultural History, 1904-1930 (New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1994): 4-60 and 87-116.

Styles of Jazz

A Map of Jazz Styles by Joachim Berendt The Jazz Book and Joe Germuska
http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz/styles/style-map.html

The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait of Culture and Society
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ebjb5/erica/Harlem.html

Jazz Styles
http://www.jazzhall.org/

Die Stilarten des Jazz
http://www.hamburg-jazz.de/stilarten/index.htm

Nov 23 The Sound of the 20th Century: At Home

History of Jazz Timeline from allaboutjazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazzroot.htm

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (Kingwood College Library)
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

A Chronological Subject Guide ToAmerican Popular Music 1900-1950 (Kingwood College Library)
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/music-2.html

American Music from 1950 to Present (Kingwood College Library)
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/music-3.html

A Great Day in Harlem
http://www.harlem.org/

Center for Black Music Research (Chicago)
http://www.cbmr.org/index.htm

Lewis Erenberg, "Swing Goes to War: Glenn Miller and the Popular Music of World War II" in Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II (Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996): 144-165.

Lewis A. Erenberg, "Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazzscene" in Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). 221-245.

Eric Porter, "Dizzy Atmosphere": The Challenge of Bebop" in American Music (Winter 1999): 422-446.

National Public Radio online: The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html

Nov 30 The Sound of the 20th Century: Abroad

Eric J. Hobsbawm, "On the Reception of Jazz in Europe" in Mäusli, Jazz und Sozialgeschichte: 13-21.

Andre Millard, "America on Record: Recorded Sound as an Agent of Americanisation" in Phil Melling and Jon Roper, eds., Americanisation and the Transformation of World Cultures: Melting Pot or Cultural Chernobyl? (Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996): 155-170.

Penny M. Von Eschen, "Satchmo Blows Up th World": Jazz, Race, and Empire during the Cold War" in Wagnleitner and May, Here, There and Everywhere : 163-178.

Frederick S. Starr, Red and Hot: Jazz in Rußland von 1917 – 1990 (Wien: Hannibal, 1990): 171-214.

Reinhold Wagnleitner, "Jazz, Pop Music and Rock ´n´ Roll" in R. Wagnleitner, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994): 193-221 and 320-323.

Kevin Whitehead, "Jazz Worldwide" in John Edward Hasse, ed., Jazz: The First Century (New York: William Morrow & Co.,2000)
http://www.iaje.org/iaje99/RequestedArticle.asp?tit=150

Penny M. Von Eschen, "Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz, Race, and Empire during the Cold War" in Wagnleitner and May, Here, There and Everywhere:
163-178.

R. Wagnleitner, The Empire of Fun, or Talkin´ Soviet Union Blues: The Sound of Freedom and American Cultural Hegemony in Europe During the Cold War" in
Austrian Information Washington, D.C. Volume 52, No. 3-6/7, March-July 1999 (four installments)

Leslie Gourse, "American jazz musicians once enjoyed a freedom and respect in France’s capital that they could never win at home" American Heritage (April 2000)
http://www.americanheritage.com/00/apr/042.htm

Peter Wicke, Populäre Musik im faschistischen Deutschland
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/fpm/texte/wicke2.htm

Margo Jefferson, "When Black America Triumphed in France" The New York Times, 3 October 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/03/arts/03NOTE.html

City of Health--Colony of Homeless Children, January, 1961
Louis Armstrong in United Arab Republic
Unidentified photographer, Black and white photograph
Courtesy of Louis Armstrong Archive, Queens College, CUNY

Dec 7 Seminar Presentations

Dec 14 Seminar Presentations

11 January 2001 SEMINAR PAPERS ARE DUE

Jan 11 Seminar Presentations

Jan 28 Seminar Presentations

Jan 25 Seminar Presentations

The following Jazz Oral History Project Interviews of the Smithsonian Institution are available in R. Wagnleitner´s office: Bill Coleman, Harry Sweets Edison, Erskine Hawkins, Jimmy McPartland, Cootie Williams and Kenny Clarke.

Sprechstunde: DO 15.00 – 16.00 Raum 2028 Tel.: 8044/4733

Reinhold.Wagnleitner@sbg.ac.at http://www.sbg.ac.at/ges/people/wagnleitner/home.htm

SATCHMO MEETS AMADEUS:
NEW ORLEANS AND SALZBURG: TWO CITIES AND THEIR SOUNDS OF MUSIC

READING SUGGESTIONS

Jazz Bibliographie von Peter Wicke: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/fpm/bibliogr/jazz.htm

Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings ed. by Thomas David Borthers (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Blues People: the Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed from It (Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1995)

Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Das Jazz-Buch: von New Orleans bis in die achtziger Jahre; mit ausführlicherDiskographie. Überarb. u. fortgef. von Günther Huesmann. (Frankfurt am Main, 1997)

Robert Crunden, Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism. Art, Music and Letters in the Jazz Age (New York: Basic Books, 2000)

Linda Dahl, Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984)

Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990)

Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley, eds., Jazz : the Essential Companion (London: Paladin Grafton Books, 1990)

Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II (Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Lewis A. Erenberg, Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998)

Samuel A. Floyd, jr., The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

Gary Giddins, Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong (New York: Da Capo Press, 2001)

Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

John Edward Hasse, Jazz: The First Century (New York: Morrow, 2000)

Ekkehard Jost, Sozialgeschichte des Jazz in den USA (Hofheim: Wolke-Verlag, 1991)

Michael G. Kater, Gewagtes Spiel: Jazz im Nationalsozialismus (München : Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verllag, 1998)

Ashley Kahn and Jimmy Cobb, Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (New York: Da Capo, 2000)

Bill Kirchner (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Jazz (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, October 2000)

Wolfram Knauer, ed., Jazz in Europa (Hofheim: Wolke-Verlag, 1994) (=Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung; 3)

Theo Mäusli, ed., Jazz und Sozialgeschichte (Zurich: Chronos 1994)

Francis Newton (=Eric Hobsbam), The Jazz Scene (New York: Pantheon, 1993; 1st edition London, 1959)

Burton W. Peretti, The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1992)

Burton W. Peretti, Jazz in American Culture (Chicago, Ill. : Dee, 1997)

Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (Berkeley, Calif.: University of Califoria Press, 2000)

Ben Sidran, Black Talk: How the Music of Black America Created a Radical Alternative to the Values of Western Literary Tradition (New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971)

John F. Szwed, Jazz 101 : A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz (New York: Hyperion, 2000)

Frederick S. Starr, Red and Hot: Jazz in Rußland von 1917 – 1990 (Wien: Hannibal, 1990)

Joe Viera, Jazz: Musik unserer Zeit (Schaftlach: Oreos-Verlag, 1992)

Reinhold Wagnleiner, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War (netLibrary 1999: eBook ISBN: 0585028982. Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994 Print ISBN: 0807844551)

Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May (eds.), "Here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture (Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England, 2000) (=Salzburg Seminar Publications)

Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Jazz : An Illustrated History (New York: Knopf, 2000)

Klaus Wolbert, ed., That's Jazz: der Sound des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Musik-, Personen-, Kultur-, Sozial- und Mediengeschichte des Jazz von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins, 1997)

Mike Zwerin, La tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing unter den Nazis (Wien: Hannibal, 1988)

JAZZ: BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS from LINGUA FRANCA
http://www.linguafranca.com/Special/books.9505.html

Herbie Hancock Presents Living Jazz: Explore the Jazz Evolution (Irvine, CA:
Graphix Zone, Hancock and Joe Productions, 1996) Windows & Macintosh CD-ROM

David Sharp, An Outline History of American Jazz/ CD-Beilagen (3), 1998

Jazz JOURNALS

Jazz Zeitschriften und Informationsdienste
http://www.darmstadt.de/kultur/musik/jazz/jazzlinks.htm#Zeitschriften

List of Periodicals and Jazz Magazines Worldwide (Jazz-Institut Darmstadt)
http://www.stadt.darmstadt.de/kultur/musik/jazz/periodika2.htm

Music Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicals (William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/journals.html

Down Beat (Chicago, seit 1934)
http://www.downbeat.com/sections/home/text/default.asp

JazzEcho
http://www.jazzecho.de/mmc/MMC_STD.p_JazzHome

Fono Forum
http://www.fonoforum.de/ff/

Jazz Magazine
http://www.jazzmagazine.com/

Jazz Pages
http://www.jazzpages.com/main_d.htm

Jazzthetik
http://www.jazzthetik.de/

Le Jazz
http://www.lejazz.simplenet.com/

Jazz Media Resources on the Internet
http://www.wnur.org/jazz/media/

Offbeat Magazine
http://www.offbeat.com/

Rondo: Archiv Jazz Kritiken A-Z
http://www.rondomagazin.de/jazz/alphabet.htm

The Jazz Thing
http://www.jazzthing.de/

Jazz USA
http://jazzusa.com/

Jazz PHOTOGRAPHY

William Claxton Photography
http://www.williamclaxton.com/

Gallery 41: Interviews, photographs, sounds
http://www.gallery41.com/

William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz from The Music Division of the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html

Jazzography
http://www.jazzreview.com/photos.html

Jazz WEBSITES

Absolutely Jazz
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4949/#History

America´s Jazz Heritage: The Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/

America´s Jazz Heritage Exhibitions
http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/exhibits.htm

Austrian JazzNet
http://www.jazznet.at/

Bluenote
http://www.bluenote.com/

Ken Burn´s Jazz: A History of American Music (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

Center for Black Music Research
http://www.cbmr.org/

Center for Black Music Research : Related Links
http://www.cbmr.org/links.htm

Charles Mingus Homepage
http://webusers.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/index.html

Contemporary Jazz
http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/