Lectori salutem! - Introduction

While the editors of the first Hungarian jazz studies volume acknowledge previous attempts in this direction, they hope that a focused interdisciplinary approach could yield more results than those of earlier publications. The teachings of various post-modern theoretical schools contribute to realise the relative significance of jazz canons, the one-sidedness of the narrative of successive styles and to establish the new perspective of seeing jazz as a discourse, or, in another view, as a construct or the result of negotiations between different diasporas. The essays explore historical topics, interviews challenge well-known concepts, and a sociological survey yields new results.