Growing Up
For the first time, a crucial chapter in Swiss jazz history will be subjected to detailed scholarly investigation and placed in a European context, by means of source studies and oral history and from the perspective of cultural theory.
Factsheet
- Lead school Bern Academy of the Arts
- Institute Institute Interpretation
- Research unit Pop and Jazz in Context
- Funding organisation SNSF
- Duration 01.03.2013 - 29.02.2016
- Project management Dr. Thomas Gartmann
- Head of project Dr. Thomas Gartmann
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Project staff
Angelika Güsewell
Christian Richard sel. Steulet
Prof. Dr. Britta Sweers -
Partner
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Hochschule für Musik, Jazz
Haute Ecole de Musique
Hochschule Luzern
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Universität Bern
Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera
Intakt
Jazz Archives in Europe /Siena Jazz
Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
SRG
Suisa
University of Salford
SwissJazzOrama
TCB Music
Situation
This project will feature case studies of personalities, festivals, clubs and other institutions at a time of change, revolt, consolidation and ennoblement. In the period under investigation, important festivals, colleges and record labels were founded, musicians organized themselves, were accorded state subsidies for the first time, and made a significant contribution to the development of free jazz and jazz-rock. Jazz journalism also became professional. ‘Growing up’ is the first research collaboration between all the jazz institutions of tertiary education in Switzerland, and will culminate in the practical testing and implementation of the results.
