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Cultural Sociology, Popular Music Studies, Comparative Historical Sociology, Postcolonial Studies
Hungary, Spain

Biography

Ádám Havas is a sociologist and International Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), where his research explores the connections between popular music, globalization, and migration. His postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona, Department of Sociology (2022-2024) explored the cultural politics of musical diasporas in Europe with particular emphasis on of musicians with Afro-Latin, Black British and Gypsy/Romani backgrounds. Before joining CECUPS, he was Head of Social Science Division at the Budapest-based Milestone Institute, a college of advanced studies. He was Chair of IASPM-Hungary (2018–2020) and is currently a member of IASPM-AL, the editorial board at Jazz Research Journal (Equinox) and Replika social science quarterly. He co-edited with Bruce Johnson a special issue at Popular Music and Society on global jazz diasporas and co-edits (alongside Johnson and David Horn) the Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. His book, The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora was published in 2022 by Routledge. His publications appeared in Popular Music, Jazz Research Journal and Jazz Research News among others. He gave guest lectures in various universities and research centres including The New School of Social Research, Rutgers University, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, or, Birmingham City University. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Ferenc Erdei Price awarded to the most outstanding young sociologist of the year in Hungary.

Adam is a keen advocate for the cause of academic autonomy and for a global perspective on structural inequalities and social change.

Endorsement for the Routledge book:

"What a complex, brilliant little book! It’s best to read it as
• a tour de force in the ethnography of performing arts, putting the field of jazz in Hungary on the map of the social sciences world-wide,
• a courageous renewal of the Bourdieusian dialect of sociology, from the sidelines of European bourgeois modernity,
• an ethnography of the place of ‘race’ and identity as they appear in the cosmos of the creative arts, and dance in the double bind of Dirty Whiteness and (dis)privilege,
• an insider-outsider take on the whirl of radically open-ended art,
• an account of creative lives that vibrate between bebop inspirations and the “burden of free idioms”, negotiating the all-important informal scripts played in the “Roma” and “assimilated Jewish” scenes, and
• a sparkling allegory for semiperipheral east-central Europe, a tiny universe of its own, forever in search of a sound—finding a voice that it can regard as its own."

József Böröcz, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

Ádám Havas, Bruce Johnson and David Horn, eds. (2025): The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. New York: Routledge.
Havas, Ádám (2025): “Diasporic Jazz and Identity Politics: Reflections from the European Periphery.” In Havas, Ádám, Bruce Johnson and David Horn, eds., The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. New York: Routledge, 59-71.
Havas, Ádám (2022): The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora. New York: Routledge, 198 pages. Shortlisted for IASPM 2023 Book Prize
Havas, Ádám (2022): “Zur Dekonstruktion hegemonialer Jazz-Narrative. Die Rolle von Roma-Musikern bei der Artikulation einer osteuropäischen Differenz”. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung vol. 17 “ROOTS_HEIMAT. Diversity in Jazz”. (Transl. by Wolfram Kneuer). Wolfram Kneuer, ed., 107-23.
Bruce Johnson and Adam Havas (2022): “Western Bias, Canonicity, and Cultural Globalization: Introduction to ‘Jazz Diasporas’”. Popular Music and Society, 371-76.
Havas, Ádám (2020): “The Logic of Distinctions in the Hungarian Jazz Field: A Case Study”. Popular Music 39(3-4), 619-35.
Havas, Ádám (2020): “The Rise of the Heteronomous Academy on the EU’s Boarderlands”. LeftEast, 19 August, 2020.

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Employment (5)

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen: Essen, DE

2024-10-01 to 2025-03-31 | International Fellow
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Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ES

2022-10-01 to 2024-10-01 | Postdoctoral research fellow (Department of Sociology)
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Milestone Institute: Budapest, Select a state, HU

2016-09-10 to 2022-09-01 | Module leader, mentor (Social Sciences)
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Milestone Institute: Budapest, Select a state, HU

2018-12-10 to 2022-05-15 | Division Head (Social Sciences)
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Central European University - Budapest Campus: Budapest, HU

2022-03 to 2022-05 | Module leader
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Education and qualifications (2)

Corvinus University of Budapest: Budapest, HU

2013-09-15 to 2018-11 (Doctoral School of Sociology)
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Corvinus University of Budapest: Budapest, HU

2013-09-10 to 2018-11 | PhD in Sociology (Doctoral School of Sociology)
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Professional activities (7)

International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Latin America (IASPM-AL): Sao Paolo, Brazil, BR

2022-08 to present | General member
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Jazz Research Journal (Equinox): Sheffield, GB

2021 to present | Editor
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IASPM-HU: Budapest, Non-US/Non-Canadian, HU

2021 to present | Treasurer
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Replika Social Science Journal: Budapest, Select a state, HU

2017-09 to present | Member of the Editorial Board
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IASPM-HU: Budapest, Select a state, HU

2017-10 to 2020-11 | Chair
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Hungarian Sociological Association: Budapest, HU

2020-09-14 | Erdei Ferenc Prize
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Ferenc Gazsó Committee: Budapest, Select a state, HU

2019-11 | Distinction of the Ferenc Gazsó Committee for an outstanding article published in Hungarian
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Funding (1)

Improvising Europe

2022-10 to 2024-10 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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Works (16)

Identity Politics and Diasporic Jazz: Reflections from the European Semi-Periphery

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies
2024-10-13 | Book chapter
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10.4324/9781003212638-8

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Preface

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies
2024-10-13 | Book chapter
Contributors: Ádám Havas
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The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies

Routledge
2024-10-11 | Book
Contributors: Ádám Havas; Bruce Johnson; David Horn
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Zur Dekonstruktion hegemonialer Jazz-Narrative

Wolke Verlag
2022 | Edited book
Contributors: Ádám Havas
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Western Bias, Canonicity, and Cultural Globalization: Introduction to “Jazz Diasporas”

Popular Music and Society
2022-08-08 | Journal article
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The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora

2022-03 | Other
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The Rise of Heteronomous Academia on the EU’s Borderlands

LeftEast
2020 | Magazine article
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The logic of distinctions in the Hungarian jazz field: a case study

Popular Music
2020-12 | Journal article
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Special Issue: Jazz Diasporas

Popular Music and Society
2020-05-26 | Journal article
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‘No radical critique ever comes from the centre’: Interview with Professor Bruce Johnson

Jazz Research Journal
2020-05-18 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1753-8645
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Havas, A. (2019). Arturo Rodríguez Morató y Álvaro Santana Acuña La nueva sociología de las artes. Una perspectiva hispanohablante y global Barcelona: Gedisa. 2017. 366 pp

Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega De Ciencias Sociales
2019 | Book review
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Ádám Havas

The new sociology of the arts. A Spanish-speaking and global perspective

Barataria-Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales
2019 | Journal article
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Szociológiai Szemle 28(2): 110–135. A kortárs jazz esztétikai és etnikai konstrukciói: „cigány jazz” és zenei habitus

Szociológiai szemle
2018 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1216-2051
Part of ISSN: 1588-2853
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EMÍlia Barna and Tamás Tófalvy (2017). Made in Hungary: Studies in popular music, 1<sup>st</sup> ed. New York: Routledge, 192

Hungarian Studies
2017 | Journal article
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Theorizing in social science: The context of discovery by Richard Swedberg (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014)

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Havas, Á.K.; Eren, S.S.; Nagy, S.K.; Roy, G.; Utzeri, M.; Wazir, A.
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Book Review: Mario Dunkel (2021). The Stories of Jazz: Narrating a Musical Tradition. 391. pp. Jazzforschung vol. 48. Christa Bruckner-Haring and André Doehring eds. Vienna: Hollitzer, In: Jazz Research News 60: 2782-2793.

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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for International sociology (1)