!!!Unterhaltungsmusik

Light Music: Apart from the dance bands of the 19%%sup th/% 
 century (J. Lanner, Johann  Strauss the Elder, Johann  Strauss 
the Younger, Josef  Strauss, Eduard  Strauss), who performed in the 
Vienna Prater amusement park, in cafes and in other places, 
"Volkssaenger", singers of folk music were also popular, especially in 
Vienna; Tyrolean singers, who toured as far as America, were classed 
as light music rather than folk music. Major changes in light music 
started at the beginning of the 20%%sup th/%  century: due to the 
increasing popularity of jazz (first jazz orchestra in the Prater in 
1919/20; C. Gaudriot established his first band in 1924) light music 
began to be "anglicised". The genre of the popular song developed in 
the inter-war period, which, because it was closely connected to the 
movies, reached its climax during the war and the immediate post-war 
period due to singers and actors like H.  Lang or H.  Moser, W.  Haas, 
J.  Heesters, W.  Forst, etc. As light music became internationally 
popular in the 1960s and early 1970s, Anglo-American light music also 
served as a model for Austria (rock, pop, punk, etc.). In vocal music, 
the dialect movement of the 1960s and Austrian song writers (e.g. G. 
Danzer) were decisive for the development of what has been called 
Austropop (W. Ambros, R.  Fendrich, J.  Prokopetz, Falco, STS, Erste 
Allgemeine Verunsicherung, etc.). The new Austrian 
"Volksmusik" (Hubert von Goisern) and the new "Wienerlied" 
(K. Hodina, R. Neuwirth, etc.) are special developments typical of 
Austria. Both directions deliberately disassociate themselves from 
common popular music (Zillertaler Schuerzenjaeger, Stoakogler, etc.), 
which, on the basis of the popular song, follows a general popular 
"Alpine" line. Among jazz musicians, Austrians like F.  
Wunsch, C.  Gaudriot,  Fatty George, H. Koller, H. Neubrand, E. 
Kleinschuster, F.  Gulda and Joe  Zawinul have become known 
world-wide. Austrian jazz festivals in Wiesen (Burgenland) and in 
Saalfelden (Salzburg) rank high internationally.

!Literature
H. D. Kraner and K. Schulz, Jazz in Austria, 1972; W. 
Wittmann, Oesterr. Hitlexikon (1956-1983/84), 1984; W. Gusmag, Open 
Air Jazz Wiesen, 1984; I. Karl, Jazz op. 3, 1986; S. Lang, Lexikon 
oesterreichischer Unterhaltungsmusik-Komponisten im 
20. Jahrhundert, 1987.


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