11th Nordic Jazz Conference

Documentation, research and mediation of jazz in the Nordic countries

National Library of Norway, Henrik Ibsens gate 110, Oslo. 22 and 23 October 2015



Conference programme


Thursday, October 22
09.00 – 09.30 Cofee & registration
09.30 – 10.00 Welcome & introduction

Jazz in the media
10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Heather Pinson:
Jazz in Media: Photography as a Cultural Construct
11.00 – 11.30 Alf Arvidsson:
Svenska jazzdiskurser 1919-1969
11.30 – 11.50 Coffee
11.50 – 12.20 Mischa van Kahn:
Constructing Modern Swedish jazz in the United States
12.20 – 12.50 Erling Wicklund & Hans Weisethaunet:
Norsk jazz sett fra Norge
12.50 – 13.50 Lunch

Jazz, archives and cultural heritage
13.50 – 14.50 Keynote Dan Lundberg:
Jazz, archives and cultural heritage
14.50 – 15.20 Roger Bergner:
Diversity in focus - jazz photographer Christer Landergren’s archive
15.20 – 15.40 Coffee
15.40 – 16.10 James W Dickenson:
Sounds from Lindeman
16.10 – 16.40 Erlend Skaatan Hegdal:
Charleston i Grukkedalen: Afrikansk-amerikanske artister i Norge før 1920
18.00 Dinner


Friday, October 23
Jazz history and historiography
09.00 – 10.00 Keynote John Gennari:
Who Owns Jazz History?
10.00 – 10.30 Heli Reimann:
Getting-by': musical everyday of jazz musicians in Soviet Estonia
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.30 Odd Skårberg:
Jazzforskning i Norge: En gjennomgang av norske hovedoppgaver, masteroppgaver og doktoravhandlinger med jazz som tema fram til 2014
11.30 – 12.00 Steinar Kristiansen:
Etter 35 år og 11 nordiske jazzforskningskonferanser – kan konferanseprogrammene si noe om jazzforskning i Norden?
12.00 – 12.30 Mats Holmquist:
Svensk jazzbibliografi
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Jan Bruér:
Egil Johansen och hans förhållande till jazzen i Sverige
14.00 – 14.30 Frank Büchman-Møller:
Svend Asmussen as entertainer
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee
14.45 – 15.15 Bjørn Stendahl:
70-tallet – mot de store høyder
15.15 – 15.45 Ola Opsvik:
Forgrunnsmusikken – Om frijazz i Noreg
15.45 – 16.15 Martin Westin:
Rowland Greenbergs medverkan i Charlie Parkers sverigeturné
16.15 – 16.30 Closing remarks