Table of Contents
Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: JOACHIM-ERNST BERENDT AND THE POSTWAR LEGITIMATION OF JAZZ
Chapter 1. Jazz and the divide between serious and entertainment music Chapter 2. Dance as escape? Chapter 3. Jazz greetings to and from the East? Chapter 4. Jazz, race, and colourblindness
PART II: JAZZ MEETS THE (NEW) OLD WORLD: EUROPEANIZING JAZZ
Chapter 5. The blues of German jazz Chapter 6. Emancipation and the dilemma of Volk-jazz Chapter 7. Globe Unity: Free jazz meets European New Music Chapter 8. Emancipation from the Jazz Pope Chapter 9. On the uses of European jazz
PART III: JAZZ MEETS THE OTHER WORLD
Chapter 10. The Marco Polo of jazz Chapter 11. The Goethe Institut’s jazz ambassadors strike up Chapter 12. Japanesing jazz, or: kimono today, swing tomorrow Chapter 13. Doing the bossa in Berlin Chapter 14. The 1967 world-jazz encounters: An East-West jazz-divan? Chapter 15. Finding the Blut und Boden in African roots
Conclusion: Berendt and the utopia of Weltmusik
Chronology Discography Bibliography Index