A new Historiography of Jazz in Europe. Eleven styles grouped in three periods.

Wouter Turkenburg

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Name: Wouter Turkenburg Main Subject: Guitar-Jazz Research supervisors: James Lincoln Collier, Wolfram Knauer, David Liebman Title of Research: A new Historiography of Jazz in Europe. Eleven styles grouped in three periods Research Question: Which historiographical approach does justice to the specific development of jazz in Europe? Summary of Results: As a result of focusing on the development of jazz as music, on how jazz styles were learned in Europe, and on how jazz became part of the cultural landscape of Europe, in this paper a new historiography of jazz in Europe is constructed. Shown is that although jazz had the interest of scholars in Europe almost from the very start in 1917, it took quite some time before jazz as music was really understood in Europe. Also shown is that in Europe the learning of the various jazz styles happened at a continuing faster pace. Made clear is that jazz, alien at first, became and integral part of the European landscape. Examples are given that once jazz was integrated into the music culture of Europe, jazz musicians in Europe made major contributions to all further new developments in jazz. What this paper also makes clear is that around 1977 and 2007 the cultural landscape had gone through such paradigm shifts that one can speak of three distinctive periods. A clear as possible focus on jazz as music is obtained by not primarily focusing on what ‘great’ men did, not on where exactly in Europe special events took place, nor on exact dates. The history of jazz in Europe presented in this paper is conceived in such a way that it serves as an opening chorus, as an invitation to improvise upon. Biography: Wouter Turkenburg, (Singapore, 1953) studied classical guitar at the Conservatory of Arnhem, musicology at the University of Amsterdam, is founder of the World Music School of the Music Lyceum in Amsterdam and became head of the jazz department and teacher of jazz history at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Netherlands. He also gives lectures in jazz history at the University of Utrecht and Leiden. He is the co-founder of the IASJ, the International Association of School of Jazz, based in The Hague.

type	research exposition
keywords	Research by teachers of the Royal Conservatoire
date	17/05/2016
published	23/08/2016
last modified	23/08/2016
status	limited publication
share status	private
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/275504/275505
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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