International Society for Jazz Research

Multikulturalität in unserer Gesellschaft

"Muliticultural" is a political word, which has been understood differently in history. In art a widely used method is the acquisition of something new by adapting it to your own representation. It is the new and the foreign that is always different, not the unknown, not what cannot be communicated, not the unrepresentable. Only since the artificial enforcement of a national music of the 19th century, which finally ended in the German music of the Third Reich, the exclusion has become more radical. The music of the 20th century has defined the term "adaption" in a pluralistic way, Bernstein's "songfest" of 1976 as a collage, John Cage in the concept of feeling safe as a technological embedding into a familiar area. "Multicultural" therefore means an emancipated, unrelated juxtaposition of developed artistic artefacts, from which only via adaption mixed categories can come into being for a longer period. Never an average of a total of different artistic dispositions, never that initiated melting pot, which abandons the differentiating systems and mixes them to a broth of sounds.