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I am also currently working as a curator for the lecture series as part of , the largest outdoor classical music festival in the Netherlands.Â
Researcher, teacher, musician
Ph.D., Jazz and improvised music, University of Amsterdam, NL (2016)
B.A., Saxophone (jazz), Conservatorium van Amsterdam, NL (2008)
M.A., Research Master Musicology, University of Amsterdam, NL (2007)
As part of Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals [CHIME], a European research project supported by the JPI Heritage Plus programme, Loes currently explores ways in which festival landscapes and music festivals can provide new models for thinking about cultural heritage. Loes wrote her PhD on post-war jazz in the Netherlands, focusing on the cultural politics of jazz, concepts of national thought and identity in music, and the relationship between music, representation and cultural policy-making. This research was part of the European funded HERA JRP Project , a three-year transnational interdisciplinary research project that examines the inherited traditions and practices of European jazz cultures in five countries, developing new insights into cultural exchanges and dynamics between different countries, groups and related media.
Her research interests include the social-cultural development of jazz and music festivals in the Netherlands and beyond; cultural policy in post-war the Netherlands; concepts of national thought and identity in music; and the relationship between music, cultural politics and representation.
In progress: “Piep-piep-knor en de Hollandse school: Over de opkomst van de jazzjournalistiek in Nederland.� Jazz Bulletin.
In progress: “‘Keep your wallets shut and your ears closed:’ Here comes the Jazz Band.� In Walter van de Leur (ed) Down with Jazz!: The Reception of Hot Music in Interbellum Europe (1918-1940) (Oxford University Press).
In progress: VEERKRACHT: Nieuwe Muziek Zeeland, 1969–2004. Dreischor: De Bovenkamer. [Book manuscript]
2015: Loes Rusch. “Frontierism, intellectual listeners and the new European wave: On the reception of Dutch jazz in DownBeat, 1960-1980.� Jazz Research Journal 9.1, 62-80. [Peer-reviewed]
2015: Loes Rusch. “Pitched Battles: Dutch Improvised Music, Authorities and Strategies.� In: Nick Gebhardt and Tony Whyton (ed), The Cultural Politics of jazz: This is Our Music. New York: Routledge, 42-60. [Peer-reviewed]
2014: Loes Rusch. “Alles kon en alles mocht: Reconstructie Zeeland Suite.� Jazz Bulletin 91, 34-41.
2012: Loes Rusch. “Jazz in the Netherlands, 1919-2012: Historical Outlines of a Social and Musical Praxis.� Jazzforschung / Jazz Research 44, 27-52.
Rusch appears regularly on Dutch radio and television.
See, for example:
Dutch Radio interview. Npo 1. De Ochtend, Hilversum NOS, May 18 2016.
Dutch radio interview. Radio Zwammerdam, OBA, Aug. 30 2015
Dutch television interview. Vrije Geluiden, NPO 1, Oct. 12 2014
Dutch radio interview. NTR Academie, Radio 1, Jul 3 2014.
Rusch is currently working as a curator for the lecture series as part of , the largest outdoor classical music festival in the Netherlands.