Conference Announcement: Darmstadt Jazzforum 13

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, 26 – 28 Sept. 2013
Title: Darmstadt Jazzforum 13 – Jazz Debates / Jazz Analysis: Post Bop

Excerpt from the Jazzinstitut website: “Controversies regarding jazz have been as old as the music and fought between fans, private researchers as well as journalists and scholars. Historical, aesthetic, sociological, analytical and discographical approaches have enabled the growing field of jazz research to describe jazz as an expression of 20th century art music still valid in the 21st century.

The double conference “Jazz Debates / Jazz Analysis” focuses on some aspects of these aesthetic as well as analytical approaches toward jazz. By organizing a joined conference of the two most important research institutions in the field of jazz we want to illuminate some facets of current jazz research but also instigate discussions which hopefully will discover connections between the two strands of the conference….”

The 2013 Jazzforum is a joint venture conference of the Institut für Jazzforschung, Graz, Austria and the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt.

Read more on their respective websites.