Manfred Miller

This article is about the German music journalist. For the administrative scientist see Manfred Miller (administrative scientist) .

Manfred Miller (* 1943 in Reichenberg ) is a German blues and popular music researcher and music journalist.

Life

Manfred Miller studied philosophy, musicology and sociology, but did not graduate. In the 1960s, for example, he wrote for Jazz Podium .

He has worked for radio and television in the fields of pop and jazz since 1962. In 1966/67 he was an assistant editor at Deutsche Welle . During this time he organized and produced the recordings that made Peter Brötzmann's first LP - For Adolphe Sax. From 1968 to 1970 he headed the jazz editorial team at Radio Bremen and in 1968 enabled the production of the second (through recordings in the Lila Eule ) LP recordings by Peter Brötzmann ( Machine Gun ). After 1971 he worked as a freelancer. 1981 to 1999 he was an editor in the regional studio Mainz of the SWR (or SWF).

As a music journalist, he was particularly interested in the blues and its socio-historical background. He was a co-founder of the SWF Blues Festival in Lahnstein . From the early 1970s he had a program Blues Time on Südwestfunk . The program received a special note from Miller's translation of the texts into rhyming German verses. Until 1989, “Blues Time” had a fixed slot on the second SWF / SWR program.

In 1972 he produced with Horst Königstein , Klaus Wellershaus , Tom Schroeder a . a. for NDR 3 a thirteen-part rock story ( Sympathy for the Devil ), in which he (moderated with Alexis Korner , who spoke good German and through Ernest Bornemann made connections to the popular music programs on Radio Bremen) also addressed the blues ( Magara or the good fortune to be scared , part 3, 4).

With Klaus Kuhnke and Peter Schulze , he presented a series of 52 one-hour radio broadcasts on Radio Bremen 2 from 1974 to 1976 on the history of popular music from its beginnings to 1947 ( Roll over Beethoven ) (documented by Edition Eres). The second series of programs, dedicated to the period from 1945 onwards (headed by Klaus Kuhnke), began at the end of the 1970s. The broadcast was canceled by Radio Bremen on charges of political indoctrination. Together with Kuhnke and Schulze, who died in 1988, he co-founded the Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music in Bremen, which is part of the Bremen University of the Arts . It was based on the founders' own record collections.

Fonts

• About blues and groove - African American music in the 20th century. Song library, Heupferd Musik Verlag, Dreieich 2017, ISBN 978-3-923445-18-9 .
• Chapter Blues in Joachim Ernst Berendt The Story of Jazz , rororo 1975, 1991
• And the rabbit rode the blues - from the surprising appearance and gradual disappearance of American music in the country from which the beetle came , in: Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz (editor) I've had the blues a little longer - traces of a music in Germany , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2008 (with a short biography)
• with Klaus Kuhnke, Peter Schulze: History of Pop Music , Vol. 1 (until 1947), Bremen-Lilienthal, Eres Verlag 1976, 2nd edition 1977
• Everyday I have the blues. Notes on the history and function of the blues . In: Klaus Wolbert (editor): That's Jazz , 2001-Verlag, pp. 63–76
• The second acculturation - a music-sociological attempt to develop swing , Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, Vol. 1, 1969, pp. 148–159
• with Klaus Kuhnke, Peter Schulze: Writings on popular music: a selection bibliography , Bremen, series of publications by the Archive for Popular Music, Vol. 1, 1975 (63 pages)

literature

• Siegfried Schmidt-Joos With Beat in the holy halls - the Bremen Connection , in: Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz (editor) I've had the blues a little longer - traces of a music in Germany , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2008
• Detlef Siegfried Sound of the revolt. Studies on the Cultural Revolution around 1968 , Juventa Verlag, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ for example Free Jazz , Jazz Podium, Vol. 15, 1966
2. ↑ To the re-broadcast of the program
3. ↑ On CD with book published by Bear Family Records
4. ↑ Detlef Siegfried Sound der Revolte , p. 113