Christian Broecking

Christian Broecking ( born June 5, 1957 in Flensburg ) is a German musicologist, music critic and sociologist has chosen to live in Berlin.

Work

Broecking studied at the Free University of Berlin sociology, musicology and journalism; In 2011 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin Dr. phil. about the social relevance of African-American music. He is an author, columnist for daily newspapers (taz, Tagesspiegel), and journals ( Jazz thing ) and producer of radio features. He was a founding program director of Jazz Radio Berlin (1994-1998) and editorial director of Classic Radio in Frankfurt am Main ( 2000-2003).

Broecking was a lecturer in musicology and music journalism in Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Berlin; at Winterthur Institute of Contemporary Music, he teaches jazz history. In 2007 he was a speaker at the conference " Jazz in the Global Imagination" at Columbia University, New York. He also worked as a consultant for the Darmstadt contributions to jazz research. He has worked as a jazz juror for the Prize of the German Record Critics.

In 2004, the Broecking Broecking publishing, which he also directs. In 2012 he exhibited in the Zellermayer gallery in Berlin jazz photographs. 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. 2013 led Broecking the international conference "Vision, Perception, Friction: How Jazz Became Art and Attack ( ed) - A Transatlantic Dialogue " at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.

When intestinal Jazzforum 2013 lectured Broecking "Not Black enough? Debating jazz in the post- Black timespace. " In the same year Broecking was a speaker at the scientific conference" Hobsbawm, Newton and the Jazz ", a meeting of the research project" music and youth cultures " and the workspace History of the History Department at the Johannes Gutenberg - University of Mainz.

Writings

  • The Marsalis - Factor - talks to African-American culture in the 90s. Oreos, Waakirchen - Schaftlach 1995, ISBN 3-923657-48- X.
  • Respect! Criminals Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935843-38-0.
  • Black codes. Criminals Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935843-60-7.
  • Every tone a rescue center. Criminals 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. Criminals Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940426-67-3.
  • Visualizing Respect. Jazz photographs / Jazz Photography. Creative People Books, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-938763-33-9.

Lexical entries

  • Jürgen Wölfer Jazz in Germany - The lexicon. All musicians and record companies from 1920 to today. Hannibal Verlag yards in 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4
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