Christian Broecking

Christian Broecking (born June 5, 1957 in Flensburg ) is a German musicologist , sociologist and music critic who lives in Berlin .

Act

Broecking studied sociology, musicology and journalism at the Free University of Berlin ; In 2011 he received his doctorate from the TU Berlin as Dr. phil. about the social relevance of Afro-American music. He is a book author, columnist for daily newspapers ( taz , Tagesspiegel , Berliner Zeitung) and specialist magazines ( Jazz thing ) and producer of radio features. He was the founding program director of Jazz Radio Berlin (1994–1998) and editor-in-chief of Klassik Radio in Frankfurt am Main (2000–2003).

Broecking was a lecturer for musicology and music journalism in Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg and Berlin; He teaches jazz history at the Winterthur Institute for Contemporary Music. In 2007 he was a lecturer at the conference "Jazz in the Global Imagination" at Columbia University, New York. He is also a lecturer for Darmstadt's contributions to jazz research . He is a jazz juror for the German Record Critics' Prize and National Public Radio.

In 2004 Broecking founded Broecking Verlag , which he also runs. In 2012 he exhibited jazz photographs in the Zellermayer Gallery in Berlin. Broecking curated and directed the international conference "Lost in Diversity - A Transatlantic Dialogue on the Social Relevance of Jazz", which took place in 2012 at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies . In 2013 Broecking chaired the international conference "Vision, Perception, Friction: How Jazz Became Art and Attack (ed) - A Transatlantic Dialogue" at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.

At the Darmstadt Jazzforum 2013 Broecking gave a lecture “Not Black enough? Debating Jazz in the Post-Black Time Space ". In the same year Broecking was a speaker at the scientific conference “Hobsbawm, Newton and the Jazz”, a conference of the research project “Music and Youth Cultures” and the contemporary history department of the historical seminar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 2013 to 2016 Broecking wrote a biography about the pianist and activist Irène Schweizer . In 2018 Broecking's book "Respect! The History of Fire Music" was published with a foreword by George E. Lewis.

Fonts

• The Marsalis Factor - Conversations on African American Culture in the 1990s . Oreos, Waakirchen-Schaftlach 1995, ISBN 3-923657-48-X .
• Respect! Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935843-38-0 .
• Black Codes . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935843-60-7 .
• Every sound a rescue station . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-85-0 .
• Ornette Coleman - Sound of Freedom . Creative People Books, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938763-13-1 .
• Herbie Hancock - Interviews . Creative People Books, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938763-12-4 .
• Sonny Rollins - improvisation and protest . Creative People Books, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938763-29-2 .
• Respect! The history of fire music. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940426-67-3 .
• Visualizing Respect. Jazz Photography . Creative People Books, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-938763-33-9 .
• Gregory Porter. Jazz, Gospel & Soul . Creative People Books, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-938763-42-1 .
• That irrepressible feeling of freedom. Irène Schweizer - jazz, avant-garde, politics . Creative People Books, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-938763-44-5 .
• Respect! The history of fire music. Creative People Books, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-938763-47-6 .

Lexical entries

• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

• Weekly podcast on various topics of jazz using original quotes from the musicians
• Literature by and about Christian Broecking in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Heidelberg Center for American Studies Teaching Staff" ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Christian Broecking, The Marsalis Complex. Studies on the social relevance of Afro-American jazz between 1992 and 2007 . Dissertation TU Berlin
3. ↑ Short bio in the jury of the German Record Critics' Prize
4. ↑ Ballots 2017 [1]. hullworks.net, accessed January 27, 2018 . 
5. ^ Exhibition: Visualizing Respect , Jazzthing , May 17, 2012
6. ↑ International conference on the jazz debate ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Enjoy jazz  
7. ^ Symposium: Lost in Diversity , Jazzthing , October 18, 2012
8. ↑ International Conference on Jazz, Media and Society ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Enjoy jazz  
9. ^ Symposium at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies , RNZ , November 7, 2013
10. ^ Symposium: Vision, Perception, Friction , Jazzthing , October 24, 2013
11. ↑ http://www.jazzinstitut.de/darmstaedter-beitraege-zur-jazzforschung/?lang=de
12. ↑ https://www.schoeningh.de/katalog/titel/978-3-506-78295-3.html
13. ^ Scientific conference Hobsbawm, Newton and Jazz
14. ↑ Ulrich Stock: Irène Schweizer: Just leave the practice behind . In: The time . May 24, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( online [accessed May 26, 2016]).
15. ↑ jazz Verlag. Retrieved January 27, 2018 . 
16. ^ "Jazz and Politics" , Der Spiegel , October 15, 2011
17. ↑ “Jazz in the Middle of America” , Die Zeit , October 18, 2011