Barry Ulanov
Barry Ulanov ( born April 10, 1918 in New York City; † May 7, 2000 in New York City ) was an American novelist, jazz journalist and professor of English literature.
Biography
Ulanov was the son of Nathan Ulanov, the concertmaster of the NBC Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini, and initially studied classical violin, but this was, zunichtegemacht a car accident as a child, which broke both wrists. Until 1939 he studied literature and art history at Columbia University (including with Franz Boas, Lionel Trilling, Helen Gardiner ) to be specifically closer to the jazz center of Harlem. While still a student, he was editor of the Columbia Literary Magazines and already wrote about jazz ( 1939-1941 in Swing, 1941-1943 in Review of Recorded Music, from 1940 to 1942 in lists) so that he thereafter by George T. Simon the publication the magazine Metronome was offered. He was from 1943 to 1955 editor of Metronome (then still geared more towards classical music ). During this time he established numerous contacts and supported, along with Leonard Feather, in particular the then newly arisen Bebop and Charlie Parker against the resistance of traditionalists. In 1947 he organized a radio Battlefield his Metronome All - Stars with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to the more traditional musician Rudi Blesh and his This Is Jazz Show, and in the tuning of the receiver won the modernists .. Also in the 1940s led he Jazz broadcasts for U.S. military station. Then he had from 1955 to 1958 a regular column in Downbeat and also wrote later numerous articles on various cultural topics such as in Esquire and Vogue.
In 1955 he received his doctorate at Columbia on Alberti and perspective. 1951 to 1953 he taught English literature at Princeton and from 1953 to 1988 at Barnard College of Columbia University, where he was most recently McIntosh Professor of English Literature. At the same time, he was Adjunct Professor of Religion at Columbia University. After his retirement, he taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York in the Department of Psychiatry and religion, where his second wife, the psychotherapist Anne Bedford Ulanov, a professor was. Throughout his career, he also held guest lectures at numerous universities around the world ( he was fluent in over a dozen languages).
In the 1950s, he was (married 1939-1968 ) after his conversion from Orthodox to Catholicism in 1951 with his wife Joan Bel Geddes also active in intellectual circles of the Catholic Church, as well as president of the Catholic Renascence and founder of the St. Thomas More Society at the Second Vatican Council ( where he worked among other things on the translation of the liturgy ).
Ulanov wrote alongside jazz books (including the first biography of Duke Ellington, a planned Armstrong biography never materialized ), who found widespread use, books (a total of 50 ) on theater, art in contemporary American culture ( such as modern culture and the Arts, 1972, with James Hall ), Religion, eg in relation to literature, religion and psychology in particular last, with his second wife Ann, with whom he had been married since 1968. He was influenced by Carl Gustav Jung, on which he also Jung and the Outside World (1992 ) wrote. He also translated, for example, from the French (including the recent essays by Georges Bernanos ).
From 1962 to 1963 he was Guggenheim Fellow.
From his first marriage he had three, second a child.
Others
Ulanov worked, inter alia, for the architect IM Pei as an acoustic consultant.
Lennie Tristano, also funded by Ulanov in Metronome, dedicated to him Cooling off with Barry Ulanov.
Works about jazz
- Duke Ellington 1946
- The Incredible Crosby 1948 ( on Bing Crosby )
- A history of jazz in America 1952
- A Handbook of Jazz 1957