Dauer, Alfons Michael (16. April 1921 - 27. Oktober 2010), Musikethnologe, Filmautor, Hochschullehrer

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born 16 April 1921 in Bamberg (Germany), Dauer studied musicology at the University of Mainz with Ernst Ludwig Rapp, concentrating on the study of African cultures to compensate for the lack of courses in ethnomusicology at German universities after the war. After lecturing on jazz at American cultural institutes in Germany (from 1950) he completed "Der Jazz" (1958). Through its high standard of scholarship on African and American music, and its accurate transcriptions of unwritten musics (including important jazz recordings), this work provided an important model for academic studies in black American music. Dauer took the doctorate in ethnology at Mainz in 1960 with a dissertation on the Mangbetu and in 1965 he joined the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film at Göttingen (Germany), where he supervised the production of over 400 ethnographical films, of which many were on Africa. In 1976 he was appointed chair of the department of Afro-American Studies at the Graz (Austria) Music Academy, the first such post created in Europe. He retired in 1991 and died in 2010.

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