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This uncontainable feeling of freedom : Iréne Schweizer : European jazz and the politics of improvisation

Broecking, Christian

[2021] . - Bok . - 471 sider

Fra omslaget: "Irene Schweizer: jazz oianist, activist, icon. A self-taught musician from Swiss village Schaffhausen, at the age of 19 she won first prize at the Zurich amateur jazz festival. (The festival had not anticipated that a women might win: first prize was a men's shirt.) The creative journey of this young woman from the north of Switzerland led her inexorably to experimental music: from London jazz club Ronnie Scott's and the Zurich club Africana to avant-garde stages in Wuppertal, Berlin, Willisau, Chicago, and New York; from concerts with Don Cherry, Louis Moholo and George Lewis to solo appearances as celebrated artist in the Swiss temples of high culture: the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre and the Zurich Tonhalle. She fought constantly for artistic freedom and autonomy. Her comitted action against apartheid and for woman's rights resulted in her surveillance by Swiss intelligence agencies, revealed in the "secret files scandal" of 1989. Undaunted, Schweizer persisted in her activism for left politics in Switzerland. Christian Broecking has researched and written the biography of one of the most exceptional musicians of the post-war period in Europe."

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