Growing Up: Jazz in Europe 1960 - 1980
The universities of Bern, Lausanne and Lucerne invite you to a conference, workshops and concerts in Lucerne from November 6 to 8, 2014. Proposals for conference contributions can be submitted until November 30, 2013.
The conference Growing Up: Jazz in Europe 1960 - 1980 is organized by the Bern University of the Arts, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the HEMU Lausanne. It sheds light on developments in European jazz during two of its most eventful decades.
Ekkehard Jost, Alexandre Pierrepont and Bruno Spoerri have been invited as keynote speakers.
Contributions to the following panels/sections are welcome:
- Jazz stages in Europe: festivals and clubs
- Parallel worlds: The pluralism of scenes and styles
- Jazz reception, record companies and the media
- Aspects of gender and ethnicity in European jazz
- Jazz education, professionalization and organization in professional associations
- State-subsidized jazz in Switzerland and other European countries
- What is "Swiss" about Swiss jazz?
Presentations can be given in German, English or French. Selected conference papers will be published in an issue of the European Journal of Musicologywhich is dedicated to the conference topic.
Proposals for conference contributions (personal details, academic degree, abstract of the planned contribution of approx. 400 words) can be submitted to the head of the program committee Thomas Gartmann (thomas.gartmann@hkb.bfh.ch) can be entered.
