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Michael Kahr

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Austria °1975

research interests: jazz, Music history, music theory, popular music, artistic research

affiliation: University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz / JAM MUSIC LAB University for Jazz and Popular Music

I am a jazz pianist, composer/arranger, musicologist and artistic researcher, currently employed as Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria as well as Head of the Center for Artistic Research at Jam Music Lab Private University for Jazz and Popular Music in Vienna. I have also lectured at universities in Vienna, Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Sydney. I am a board member of the International Society for Jazz Research, editorial board member of the Journal for Jazz Education in Research and Practice (IU Press) and convenor of the International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz.

My publications comprise the award-winning monograph Jazz & the City: Jazz in Graz von 1965 bis 2015, various book chapters, articles, CDs and musical scores. I edited the volume Artistic Practice as Research in Jazz and Popular Music – Positions, Theories, Methods (Routledge) and co-edited the Routledge Companion to Jazz & Gender. I have composed for big band, string ensembles, choir and jazz groups and performed at festivals and in jazz clubs across the globe.

My current research interests comprise positions, theories and methods of artistic research in jazz and popular music, jazz history, theory and analysis as well as gender diversity in jazz and sustainability in music.

Peer review experience for the Creative Europe Funding Program and the National Research Council South Africa, as well as journals such as Journal for Artistic Research, Jazz Education Network, Jazz Perspectives, Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, and Journal of the German Association for Popular Music Studies.

Mag. Michael Kahr MMus. PhD.

michael.kahr@kug.ac.at

kahr@jammmusiclab.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2837-7841

https://kug.academia.edu/MichaelKahr

https://www.jammusiclab.com/faculty/michael-kahr

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Upper Styrian Big Band Folk: Exploring Local Identity and Authenticity in Jazz (2013) author(s): Michael Kahr published in: Journal for Artistic Research
Upper Styrian Big Band Folk is an arts-based research project which has aimed for the exploration of local identity, authenticity and meaning as manifested in and interrelated with jazz composition and performance. This exposition outlines the project, its underlying aesthetic values and presents a critical reflection of the work. Two videos show the musical scores and audio recordings of two selected compositions for large jazz orchestra which represent a significant aspect of artistic research in this project. A hermeneutic reading of the music offers insight into the work's contextual background and aesthetic matters.
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Editorial, ARJAZZ Journal for Artistic Research in Jazz 1 (May, 2025) (2025) author(s): Michael Kahr, Monika Herzig and Mike Fletcher published in: ARJAZZ - Journal for Artistic Research in Jazz
Editorial of the inaugural edition of ARJAZZ Journal for Artistic Research in Jazz (May, 2025)
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Exposition: Upper Styrian Big Band Folk: Exploring Local Identity and Authenticity in Jazz (01/01/2013) by Michael Kahr

Michael Kahr 15/03/2020 at 16:32

A detailed response to the comments is published in Michael Kahr, “Artistic Research in Jazz: A Case Study and Potential Developments”. Music and Sonic Arts: Theories and Practice. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, eds. Mine Dogantan-Dack and John Dack (2018), 184–199.