Gerhard Kubik

Life

Gerhard Kubik in 1946 in what was then the American Sector of Vienna with the Jazz in touch: He got to know the music of Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, George Lewis, Bunk Johnson and Charlie Parker. After his graduation cubic studied at the University of Vienna, the subjects of Law and Political Science, and African Studies. Since 1954 cubic began publicly with his jazz band perform Musici, in 1959 the first prize at the annual Jazz Festival in Vienna received ( but shortly afterwards disbanded ); he was still just as Oswald Wiener (trumpet ), Ernst Steiner ( trombone) and Walter " Padhi " Frieberger ( washboard, percussion ) active in the real jazz band. Cubic undertook - while still a student - October 1959 to October 1960 his first trip to Africa, where he Amadinda students was particularly familiar Evaristo Muyinda and with the court music of the Baganda. After further research trips, he earned his doctorate in 1971 on an ethnological subject and his habilitation in 1980 on Theory of African Music. Since 1974 he has taught at the University of Vienna, also in Mainz and at various universities and institutes in Africa and Brazil.

Cubic published since 1959, in particular to music, dance, totemism, oral tradition and education in Africa and African-influenced cultures of Venezuela and Brazil. The paradigm is Kubiks approach when studying or when his mediation African music culture in the West. He is recognized internationally as a capacitance in the range of African culture intra-cultural research. He also appears regularly on since 1973 with the Donald Kachamba Kwela band or the Donald Kachamba Heritage Kwela band as a clarinetist and guitarist.

Kubik has significantly affected, together with the ethnomusicologist Simha Arom the composer György Ligeti and its polyrhythmic mindset since the 80s. In recent years, he gathers a team of the Center for Oral Literature in Malawi and the oral traditions in South African villages.

Publications (selection)

• Theory of African Music. 1994 ISBN 978-3-7959-0560-6
• Africa and the Blues. 1999 ISBN 1-57806-146-6
• African Guitar: audio visual recordings filed from 1966 to 1993. DVD Vestapol 13017
• To understand African music. 2 Auflg. , LIT, Münster 2004.
• Totemism. Ethno Psychological research materials and interpretations from East and Central Africa, 1962-2002. LIT, Münster 2004.
• Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs. A Graphic Tradition of West - Central Africa. 2 Auflg. , LIT, Münster, 2006.