About the Enjoy Jazz Festival
During the 2012 Enjoy Jazz Festival, distinguished experts,
artists, and journalists will meet at the Heidel-berg Center for
American Studies (HCA) to look at the diversity of jazz in Europe
and the United States. They will discuss the social relevance of
the genre on both sides of the Atlantic, similarities and
differences of European and American jazz, and their effects on our
societies.
On the occasion of the initiation of the UNESCO World Jazz Day
this year, the participants of the symposium will try to explore
the political dimensions of a genre that was seen as the epitome of
freedom in the 1960s and trace transatlantic reciprocities. With
this symposi-um, the HCA, in cooperation with Enjoy Jazz, attempts
to establish a venue where intellectual curiosity and musical zest
will feel equally at home.
This symposium was conceptualized by Christian Broe-cking and is
supported by BASF SE. Lost in DivErsity
A trAnsAtLAntic DiALoguE on thE sociAL rELEvAncE oF JAzz
An International Symposium at the Heidelberg Center for American
Studies
November 8-9, 2012
Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn PalaisHauptstraße 120D-69117
Heidelberg
T +49 6221 / 54 37 10F +49 6221 / 54 37
[email protected] www.hca.uni-hd.de
Conceptualized and Convened by: Christian Broecking
In Cooperation with:
Supported by:
thursday, november 8
(HCA)10:00 Welcome and opening remarks
10:30 Keynote Daniel Fischlin (University Research Chair and
Full Pro-fessor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of
Guelph, Guelph)“The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights,
and the Ethics of Co-Creation”
session 1, 11:15-12:45: Jazz and human rightsEric Porter
(Professor of American Studies, History, and History of
Consciousness at the University of California, Santa
Cruz):“Improvising Social Justice in Post-Katrina New Orleans“
Wolfram Knauer (Director, Jazzinstitut Darmstadt,
Darm-stadt)“Social Relevance - Baloney?”
12:45-15:00 Lunch Break
(Aula of the Old University)session 2, 15:00-16:30: American
idols – European identity i
Piano Lecture 1 15:00 Piano Solo: Alexander von Schlippenbach
(Berlin)15:25 Lecture: “The Invention of European Free Jazz”
Piano Lecture 215:45 Piano Solo: Vijay Iyer (New York)16:10
Lecture: “Transcultural Improvisation”
16:30-17:00: Break
session 3, 17:00-18:00: Jazz and Politics iKeynote Yusef Lateef
(Amherst, Massachusetts)“Reflections on the Social Relevance of
Black Improvised Music”
Keynote Archie Shepp (Paris)“Reflections on the Political Power
of Black Improvised Music”
(HCA)18:00-18:30 reception
session 4, 18:30-20:00: American idols – European identity
iiHoward Mandel (President, Jazz Journalists Association, Arts
Reporter for National Public Radio, Author, New York)“Motivations
in U.S. Jazz“
Christian Dalgas (Project Manager Copenhagen Jazz Festival,
Copenhagen)“Supporting, Exploring, and Protecting Jazz as a
Contem-porary Art Form in Denmark”
Thomas Krüger (President, German Federal Agency for Civic
Education, Bonn)“Free Tunes – the Public Meaning of Jazz in
Germany”
Friday, november 9
(HCA)session 5, 10:00-11:15: Jazz and Politics iiMark
Terkessidis (Psychologist, Migration Expert and Author, Berlin)“The
Orchestra, the Session, the Collective: Could Jazz be a Model for
Living Together in Multiplicity?“
Ted Panken (Jazz Journalist and Radio Host, New York) “All Jazz
Is Modern: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orche-stra, Radical
Aesthetics, and the AACM”
session 6, 11:15-12:30: Jazz and Politics iiiTom Carter
(President, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Member U.S. National
Commission for UNESCO, Washington, DC)“Jazz and Diplomacy“
Rainer Kern (Director, Enjoy Jazz Festival, Heidelberg)“Jazz and
the City”
DJ Lecture, 12:30-13:15Thomas Meinecke (Author, Musician, and
DJ, Berg, Bavaria)“Jazz - Resistance, Resignification“
13:15-14:15 Lunch Break
session 7, 14:15-16:00: American idols – European identity
iiiKatja von Schuttenbach (German-American Jazz Histo-rian and
Author, Washington, DC)“Trailblazing Pianist Jutta Hipp: A Life of
Jazz and the Pursuit of Freedom”
Maxi Sickert (Journalist, Jazz Historian and Author, Berlin)
“The Shatter of the American Dream - Hope and the Change of
Perspective in the German and European Jazzaesthetic“
Angelika Niescier (Composer and Improviser, Cologne)“The Braxton
Experience”
16:00-17:00 Final remarks
