Jazzul vine din Odessa
Jazz Comes from Odessa!
Author(s): Frederick StarrSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: jazz; musik chals; Café Franconi; New Orleans; onstep; foxtrot; tango; cakewalk; Alexander’s Ragtime Band; Irving Berlin; Vesiolîie ribiata (Băieţii veseli); «origine burgheză»; I. Dunaievski; Adelita; Lev Lundstrem; Glenn Miller; politică culturală restr
Summary/Abstract: An American musicologist, the author presents a funny episode of the Cold War epoch: in order to be allowed to further play jazz in the USSR, while Russian authorities were preparing a death blow to jazz, considered «perverted American music», Leonid Utesov, a musicologist from Odessa and a well known jazzman in those years, launched in 1949 the fanciful thesis that jazz was not an American «capitalist» product, but a Russian invention, more specifically a creation of the composers in Odessa. An excursion in the history of the musical life of the XIX and XX century Odessa.
Journal: Lettre Internationale - Ediţia română
- Issue Year: 2002
- Issue No: 43
- Page Range: 102-106
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Romanian
