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Jazz: list věnovaný jazzu a moderní hudbě [Jazz: a journal devoted to Jazz and modern music]. Vols. I, nos. 1-5, vol. II, nos. 1-10 (all published) by Dorůžka, P. L., M. Ducháč, J. Rychlík, E. Uggé, editors

by Dorůžka, P. L., M. Ducháč, J. Rychlík, E. Uggé, editors

Jazz: list vÄnovaný jazzu a moderní hudbÄ [Jazz: a journal devoted to Jazz and modern music]. Vols. I, nos. 1-5, vol. II, nos. 1-10 (all published) by Dorůžka, P. L., M. DucháÄ, J. Rychlík, E. Uggé, editors

Jazz: list věnovaný jazzu a moderní hudbě [Jazz: a journal devoted to Jazz and modern music]. Vols. I, nos. 1-5, vol. II, nos. 1-10 (all published)

by Dorůžka, P. L., M. Ducháč, J. Rychlík, E. Uggé, editors

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Prague: 1947-1948.  Quartos (29.3 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. per issue. Occasional old vertical creases; occasional pen marks to wrappers; some browning and soiling; scattered wear and losses to spine folds and wrappers of two issues detached; one issue lacking wrappers; overall good or better. Complete run comprising fifteen issues in thirteen fascicles (two double issues) of the first Czech periodical devoted entirely to jazz. The first issue leads with a quotation by the Czech avant-garde theatre figures Voskovec and Werich, which proclaims that "to view jazz as the music 'of some black people' is fascism, even if it is unconscious." The journal contains a wealth of photo-illustrated articles on Don Redman, the origins of Afro-American music, Tricky Sam Nanton, blues, King Cole Trio, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, the music culture of New Orleans and New York, and much else. Also of interest are book and film reviews, as well as extensive discographies and notes about local Czech jazz happenings.

Remarkably, the journal was published from May 1947 to April 1948, right through the Communist coup of February 1948, which changed things drastically: "The communists' accession to power in 1948 prevented the release of major publications by the various protagonists of the jazz scene; only a few rather critical newspaper articles made it past the censorship system. Indeed, the state encouraged works that defamed jazz, such as the pamphlet Muzyka duchovnoj niščety (Mental poverty in music) by the Soviet musicologist Victor Gorodinski, who accused the genre of "mental poverty" and "enslavement" (Wolf-Georg Zaddach, "Jazz in Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s," in Jazz and Totalitarianism, 2017). It was not until the mid-1960s - even later than in neighboring Poland, for instance - that the first major unbiased works about jazz could appear in print.

Meadows 3108.

As of August 2020, KVK, OCLC show three holdings worldwide, though none specify the exact issues included.
  • Bookseller Bernett Rare Books Inc US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Keywords czech, czechoslovak, jazz, swing, music, musical, bands, socialism, socialist, eastern europe, soviet, america, americana