Horning, Susan Schmidt (Author)
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Pages: 131-145
Most scholarly conferences include some time for relaxation and entertainment, but few can boast a regular jazz evening with musicians who are also society members. Since Hans-Joachim Braun organised the first configuration of what would become the Email Special in Budapest in 1996, these jazz evenings have become a regular feature of ICOHTEC meetings. It is fitting that music would find an ongoing presence in the annual ICOHTEC symposia. As a scholarly society founded on international cooperation and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, ICOHTEC has always embraced openness, and what better way to communicate across cultures than through the universal language of music? It is also fitting that jazz music would become an integral part of the events of a society rooted in European culture, since Europe was where American jazz musicians found more appreciative audiences than those in the United States during the racially divided Jim Crow era of the 1920s through early 1960s. But jazz has not been the only music enjoyed at our symposia, as this paper reveals. Tracing the history of music at ICOHTEC conferences, from the German Dixieland band on the steamboat ride along the Elbe in 1987 to the first Email Special gig in a Hungarian jazz club a decade later and the subsequent re-configurations of the group over the years and across four continents, to the Bach organ recital of the late W. David Lewis in a church in Prague, to the blues power duo of Kinney and Ampuja, this is the story of how this musical tradition has evolved, how the local organisers have always managed to provide the necessary equipment — including a vibraphone! — and how ICOHTEC's musical events exemplify international cooperation and the collegial atmosphere of our society.
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