Christoph Wagner (music journalist)

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Christoph Wagner (born June 26, 1956 in Balingen, Württ. ) Is a German music journalist , music historian, radio and book author , record publisher and festival curator. He runs the World Music Picture Archive in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire .

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Wagner went to school in Balingen, where he graduated from high school in 1974. After completing his military service , he studied pedagogy , history and German at the University of Education in Esslingen . He then worked for ten years as a primary and secondary school teacher in the Swabian Alb . In 1992 he was in educational theory doctorate .

Since 1984 Wagner has worked as a freelance music journalist for various newspapers, specialist magazines and radio. He has contributed to the “ New Grove Dictionary of Music ”, the “Rough Guide to World Music (Europe, Asia & Pasific)”, the “Rough Guide World Music” and the “Rough Guide to Austria”, as well as booklet texts for CDs by Tom Rainey , Mark Helias , Stephan Crump , Ingrid Laubrock , Hans Lüdemann , Lucas Niggli , Mike Svoboda , Eddie Prevost and Carl Ludwig Hübsch for the labels Intakt , Intuition , Jazzwerkstatt , Matchless Recordings, Ellipsis Arts, Mississippi Records and Trikont .  

Wagner is the publisher of twenty records and CDs for the Trikont and Wergo labels , including "American Yodeling", "Global Accordion" and "Stranded in the USA". "The Pig's Big 78s". (with John Peel & Sheila) and “LAUTyodeln Vol. 1”. He received the German Record Critics' Prize twice .  

In 2016 Wagner (with Franz Koglmann ) programmed the “Cool Britannia” festival in Vienna and in 2018 the “Night of Toy Pianos” in Göppingen. Since 2016, Wagner has also been co-curator of the Munich LAUTyodeln festival.

Book publications

Wagner published several books. In 1993 “The Accordion - A Wild Career” was published, a social history of the instrument from a global perspective. This was followed in 1996 by “The Harmonica - A Musical Globetrotter” ( Transit Verlag ) and “The Accordion or Invention of Popular Music”, which was published in 2000 by Schott Verlag .

In 2004 Wagner published the book "Eye & Ear - Encounters with World Music", which contains essays by musicians such as Robert Wyatt , Mauricio Kagel , Jah Wobble , Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros . In 2013 “The Sound of Revolt - The Magical Years of the West German Music Underground” was published, which examines the musical underground scene in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1967 to 1973.

This was followed by three book publications on the history of the musical subculture of the 1960s and 1970s in southwest Germany: "Dreams from the underground - when beat fans, hippies and folk freaks mixed up Baden-Württemberg" ( Silberburg Verlag , 2017). In “50 Years of Club Manufacture in Interviews and Documents” Wagner takes a close look at the legendary Schorndorfer Club, while “The South is turning - the pop revolt of the 1960s and 70s in pictures” (Silberburg Verlag, 2019) a commented photo tour through concert halls and youth clubs in Baden-Württemberg of the Woodstock era. Also in 2019 was “Jodelmania - from the Alps to America and beyond” published by Antje Kunstmann .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Peel: Family album; Radio times 3/3/2001
  2. ^ Tim Wise: Review From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale: American Yodeling on Early Recordings. In: Journal of American Folklore 125 (497): 358-374 July 2012. July 2012, accessed on May 25, 2020 (English).
  3. ^ Keith Summers: Global Accordion. In: Musical traditions. Rod Stradling, April 8, 2002, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ray Tempelton: Stranded in the USA: Early Songs of Emigration. In: Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1. English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2006, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ben Thompson: John Peel and Sheila, The Pig's Big 78's - A Beginner's Guide. In: The Guardian. May 21, 2006, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Erica Stucky: yodeling LOUD. Various performers: fern-nah-weit, January 9, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ radiokulturhaus.orf.at: Cool Britannia. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  8. ^ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Göppingen: From the children's room to the concert halls. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Cologne Verlag Axel Stinshoff: Jazz thing & Blue Rhythm: News, reviews, concerts, festivals, jazz on television and radio. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Festival "LAUTyodeln" - to folk music craze, the Jodel boom joined. Retrieved on July 25, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ ZEIT ONLINE | Read zeit.de with advertising or with a PUR subscription. You have the choice. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ FolkWorld column: T :-) M's night watch. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  13. ^ Stefan Hentz: Music as a utopian movement | NZZ. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: The rock history of the country: When Swabia learned to rock. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  15. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Pop: When the pop revolution took place in the country. October 11, 2017, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Balingen: From basement clubs to the big stages - Schwarzwälder Bote. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Michael Fischer: "Jodelmania": Holleri du dödel di, diri diri dudel dö . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 26, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist, music historian, radio and book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Balingen, Württ.