Zweites transatlantisches Jazz-Symposium im Rahmen von Enjoy Jazz

"VISION, PERCEPTION, FRICTION: HOW JAZZ BECAME ART AND ATTACK(ED). A TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE" ist der Titel des zweiten transatlantischen Jazz-Symposiums, das Enjoy Jazz am 8. und 9. November 2013 im Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) veranstaltet.

http://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/forschung/konferenzen.html

Das Programm:

Friday, November 8

(HCA)

16:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

16:15-17:45 Session 1: Transatlantic Encounters I

Arne Reimer (Jazz Photographer and Author, Leipzig):

"American Jazz Heroes: How German Journalism Pays Tribute to American Culture"

Götz Bühler (Jazz Journalist, Radio and TV Presenter, Hamburg):

"Revisited – European Jazz Legends"

17:45-18:15 Reception

18:15 Keynote

Penny Von Eschen (Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan):

"Jazz as a Global Culture of Dissent"

Saturday, November 9

(HCA)

9:30-10:45 Session 2: Jazz and Cultural Change I

Berndt Ostendorf (Professor em. of North American Cul¬tural History at the Amerika Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München):

"Growing up in the Fifties: Jazz, the Cold War, and the Birth of American Studies"

Kurt Ellenberger (Professor of Musicology, GrandValleyStateUniversity):

"Born Analog: Challenges and Opportunities in a Digital World"

11:00-11:45 Featured Speaker

Herman S. Gray (Professor of Sociology at the University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz):

"Jazz and Value, Jazz as Value"

12:00-13:15 Session 3: Transatlantic Encounters II

Olivier Senn (Director Performance Research at the

LucerneUniversity of Applied Sciences and Arts):

"Transatlantic Encounters @ the Willisau Jazz Festival"

Jürgen Arndt (Professor of Musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim):

"Thelonious Monk as a Stimulating Factor of European Jazz"

13:15-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 Sound Lecture

Michael Wollny (Composer and Improviser, Frankfurt)

15:30-16:45 Session 4: Jazz and Cultural Change II

Christine M. Merkel (Head of the Division for Culture

at the German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn):

"Globalization and Jazz"

Rainer Kern (Director, Enjoy Jazz Festival, Heidelberg):

"15 Years Enjoy Jazz: A European Festival of an Ame¬rican Art Form – Program Politics, Challenges, and Goals"

16:45 Closing Remarks