"Jazz en Hungría: Historia Social y la Escena Contemporánea" – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 19 de abril, 2023

Basada en material de la monografía del Dr. Havas, The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora (Routledge, 2022), la charla explora cien años de jazz en Hungría desde tres aspectos principales:

1. El papel subversivo del jazz en la redefinición de los conceptos racializados de "cultura nacional";

2. El "swing" geocultural de Hungría entre "Oriente" y "Occidente" y

3. La aparición de un movimiento nacional de free jazz inspirado por la música folk.

Las definiciones contradictorias del jazz – "el sonido de la modernidad occidental"– han dado lugar a una rivalidad simbólica en Hungría entre el jazz mainstream centrado en EE.UU., por un lado, y una estética de free jazz orientada a la música de Béla Bartók y tradiciones folklóricas. Nociones como "tradicionalismo" y "modernismo" se han vinculado a distinciones culturales basadas en la clase y la "raza" y ofrecen una visión crítica de la lógica social de la posición geocultural de Hungría. El paso de la "música de café" al bebop se convirtió en una marca importante en las estrategias artísticas de los músicos Romaníes, hasta el punto que el jazz sigue funcionando como medio para expresar la diferencia cultural. Basándose en la sociología cultural de Bourdieu, los estudios sobre la música popular y los estudios postcoloniales, Havas subraya que el jazz sigue siendo un medio de expresión de la diferencia cultural.

Palabras clave: Diáspora del jazz, globalización, diferencia cultural, geopolítica del jazz, Europa del Este

"Swinging" Cultural Difference in Eastern Europe: Genesis and Structure of Hungarian Jazz Diaspora, 11:30-1pm, April 5, 2023 Seminar Room – Department of Sociology, Davison Hall, Rutgers University, 26 Nichol Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 2023-04-05

Based on his recent Routledge book, Dr Havas will talk about the tensions of cultural globalization as mirrored in changing practices of improvised music throughout the 20^th century. The talk opens a window to issues of race- and class-based formations of national culture, with special emphasis on Jewish assimilation and the crucial impact of Romani musicians on the development of jazz as 'art music' in the state socialist era. The distinctions between bebop and Bartók-oriented free jazz casts new light on Hungary's position between 'East' and 'West.'

“Rituals of Resistance, Trans-Generic Utopias, and the Limits of Free-(idi)oms: TheCultural Politics of Barcelona’s Free Improvisation Scene.” 2023-03-30

“Rituals of Resistance, Trans-Generic Utopias, and the Limits of Free- (idi)oms: TheCultural Polics of Barcelona’s Free Improvisaon Scene.”

Sonic Conversations in theWestern Mediterranean Online Lecture Series of the ERC Research Project “Past and Present

Guest Lecture at Rutgers University, Department of Sociology 2023-04-06

Guest lecture on Pierre Bourdieu's constructivist structuralism at Rutgers University, "Sociology of Recent Soci(ologic)al Theory" PhD course.

Guest lecture at the New School's Brown Bag seminar series 2023-04-11

“Swinging” Cultural Difference in Eastern Europe: The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora

Based on material from Dr Havas’ monograph, The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian
Jazz Diaspora, (Routledge, 2022) the talk explores one hundred years of jazz in Hungary
from three major aspects:

1. the subversive role of jazz in the redefinition of racialized concepts of “national
culture”,
2. Hungary’s geocultural “swinging” between “East” and “West” and
3. the emergence of a folk music inspired national free jazz movement.

Replika 125 – Panel discussions on the occasion of Replika journal's 125th issue on "class" and "'race'" 2023-01-04

On the occasion of the 125th issue of Replika, a launch event will be held on 4 January 2023 from 18:00 at the Drei Raben / Három Holló art gallery and restaurant. The evening will feature a discussion with the authors, invited guests and the public on the two main blocks of the issue, "class" and "race". After sixty minutes of moderated discussion, we will "open up" the conversation and take questions from the audience.