Jazz in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1960s in the Perspective of… Jazz (Part 1. Synthesis of the Phenomenon)

Abstract

The article aims to quantitatively and qualitatively examine the content of the monthly magazine Jazz (1960–1969) in the context of defining this type of music in Central and Eastern Europe and (preliminary) applications of materials about this region to the Western world. At the same time, it supplements the first study, analysing the period between 1956 and 1959; hence, it was given a comparative form, i.e. the text is divided into two main parts, which concern the reference to statistical data (along with the author’s commentary) and a description of the use of syncopated music in the countries of the Eastern Bloc: USSR, Czechoslovakia, GDR, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The research results showed that, in all cases, the degree of jazz development was either preserved or progressed during the four-year period.