Blurb:

Jazz in wartime; The occupation; Cool jazz; Traditional jazz after 1945; The mid-1950s: a turning point; The conservative 1960s: amateurs and unorthodox masters; Graz: Austria’s second jazz capital; Vienna’s reawakening in the late 1960s; Early postmodernism and the Vienna Art Orchestra; Back to Graz: Karlheinz Miklin and the student generation of the early 1980s; Vienna in the 1980s: polystylistic
concepts; The 1990s: electronic sounds and Balkan music; 2000 on: a time of change; Listening guide; Bibliography;