"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

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.'

Based on his recent Routledge book https://www.routledge.com/The.../Havas/p/book/9780367677794 , Dr Havas will talk about the tensions of cultural globalization as mirrored in changing practices of improvised music throughout the 20th 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.'

Dr Havas' most recent paper, based on this research project was published in the journal Popular Music.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Genesis-and-Structure-of-the-Hungarian-Jazz-Diaspora/Havas/p/book/9780367677794

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“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.

"Jazz en Hungría: Historia Social y la Escena Contemporánea" – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 19 de abril, 2023 2023-04-19

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

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.