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Jazz has been an integral part of the Austrian music scene since the postwar era and has found wide acceptance in the Austrian cultural landscape over time. This paper presents an overview of the most important developments and personalities in Austrian jazz history. The sources for this information include musicological texts on jazz in Austria as well as interviews with observers and active members of the jazz scene; online research is also of particular relevance, especially concerning more recent history. The first section, »From the beginnings to the end of World War II«, deals mainly with the early development of jazz until the Nazi era. The second, »Postwar and the 1960s« traces the beginnings of an independent scene and important Austrian expatriate musicians as well as discussing Graz as a stimulating force and academic institutionalization. The section »The late 1960s to the generational change of the late 1970s« deals with the Vienna scene as well as the influence of the »Vienna Art Orchestra« and its leading soloists from that period. The final section, »Stylistic pluralism - the 1980s to the present« examines various trends and musicians from the 1980s and 1990s as well as introducing the first generation of the new millennium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based upon a reading of Arnold Schoenberg's theoretical writings on the ›musical idea‹ and its presentation, this paper discusses the possibility of a posthermeneutical perspective on the phenomenon of sound in the Second Viennese School. On the one hand, Schoenberg's skeptical considerations towards the relevance of sound are contrasted with descriptions of personal experience of musical presence in letters of Schoenberg and Weber. On the other hand, Schoenberg's reflections on instrumentation are confronted with the existence of various arrangements, transcriptions and instrumentations of works by Weber, Schoenberg and Berg. It can be seen that sound has to be thought neither solely as a moment of constituting formal structure, meaning and sense, nor as the constitutive other of meaning. Thus, sound should be understood as a phenomenon oscillating between sense and sensuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the findings of a quantitative investigation into the major working fields of German, Austrian, and Swiss communication professionals. We build upon previous work done in roles research but follow a grounded approach in using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 340 communicators. We identify fives typologies into which the working fields of communication practitioners in these countries can be categorized: Strategists, Public Affairs Officers, Internal Communicators, Investor Relations Officers and Brand Officers. These profiles are distinctively different in terms of education, salary, and career as well as job satisfaction and show the various roles communication practitioners take as well as their integration within organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper shows the specific features of mortality in Vienna city in the 19th century. As a data source 5 parish registers were used. A detailed analysis of the causes of death reveals the reasons for the „epidemiological change" from the transition period of proto-industrialisation to the end of industrialisation. The mortality and their development is a useful indicator to describe changes of the urban health conditions when it is differentiated by age and cause of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social network analysis is a useful tool for historical research on social networks. But the process of generating data for a social network analysis has hardly been discussed yet: How should qualitative, process-generated data be coded to be suitable for social network analysis? For historical research on eugenic networks in Austria from 1900 to 1980 sociological methods such as the content analysis and the social network analysis will be used. This contribution discusses the method of content analysis by focusing on the question how to narrow down networks and process-generated data and on the process of coding. The example used is the depiction of eugenic sterilization in scientific and non-scientific papers in Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses analytical and statistical problems in studying the financial wealth distribution of private households. A particular focus is laid on methodical problems of micro data on households' wealth such as testing the quality of the data, conducting plausibility checks, and imputing of missing data. Furthermore, the article presents some results of a recent survey of the Osterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) compiling information on households' financial wealth, investment, debt and financial behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article compares the electoral law for the Carinthian Assembly with electoral laws of other European realities. The focus is on the impact of these laws on the representation of minorities in the respectively elected bodies. The author looks into the question of whether measures for the effective participation of minorities in public and political life are requested not only because of democratic but also legal considerations regarding the principle of equality. The article ends with suggestions on how the Carinthian legislator could reform the electoral law in order to allow for the representation of the Slovene minority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]