The cover of ''Dada Jazz'' from September 1922. ''Dada Jazz'' was a Yugoslav

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

ist single issue publication published in

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in September 1922 and edited by

Dragan Aleksić Dragan Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Алексић, 22 December 1901 – 22 July 1958) was a Serbian Dadaist poet, author, journalist and filmmaker. He was the founder of the Yugoslavian branch of Dadaism, termed "Yugo-Dada". Born i ...

. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to

Branko Ve Poljanski Branko Ve Poljanski (pseudonym of Branislav Micić, 22 October 1898, Sošice - 14 January, 1947, Recloses, France ) was a Serb poet and painter active in the Serbo-Croat avant-garde. He was the co-founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism an ...

and his brother

Ljubomir Micić Ljubomir Micić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Мицић; 15 November 1895 – 14 June 1971) was a Serbs, Serbian poet, writer, critic, editor and actor. He was the founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism and its magazine ''Zenit''. Both he and hi ...

's anti-Dada publication ''

Dada-Jok The cover of ''Dada-Jok'' from May 1922. ''Dada-Jok'' (Dada No) was a Yugoslav anti-Dada single issue publication published in May 1922 and edited by the Zenitist Branko Ve Poljanski. It was Poljanski's and his brother Ljubomir Micić's response ...

'' from May 1922. Although ''Dada Jazz'' has been characterized as a mere footnote to ''Dada Tank'', it was in fact intended as a "Dada anthology", analogous to

Richard Huelsenbeck Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (aka Charles R. Hulbeck) (23 April 189220 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau who was associated with the formation of the Dada movement. Life and work Afte ...

's ''Dada Almanach''.

Background

After falling out with the representative of

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, the Zenitists

and

published an anti-Dada single issue publication in May 1922 called ''

''. Through a skillful, reflexive parody of the movement, the editor Poljanski sought to expose Dada's limits as an artistic and spiritual current, proposing Zenitism in its stead. As a response, Aleksić published two single-issue pamphlets of his own – ''

Dada Tank The cover of ''Dada Tank'' from June 1922. ''Dada Tank'' was a Yugoslav Dadaist single issue publication published in Zagreb in June 1922 and edited by Dragan Aleksić. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to Branko Ve Poljanski and hi ...

'' in June and ''Dada Jazz'' in September 1922.

''Dada Jazz'' reprinted

's 1921 essay "Dadaism" from '' Zenit'', subtly reminding people of his seniority over

. It included a major text by

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...

, titled "Manifeste de Monsieur Aa, l'antiphilosophe" (Manifesto of Mr Aa the Antiphilosoper), as well as Tzara's short verse "Colonial Syllogism", alongside a poem by Aleksić. On the centerfold two pages was printed the typographic picture-poem "Smaknu" (Execution), a translation into

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

of a Hungarian poem by Ádám Csont that had originally appeared, like Erwin Enders's "Greek Fire" published in ''

'', in the May 1922 issue of the Vienna-based publication '' MA''. Tzara's work in Dada Jazz was published in its original

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. Although ''Dada Jazz'' has been characterized as a mere footnote to ''

'', it was in fact a very different project. Its cover designated it to be a "Dada anthology", analogous to

's ''Dada Almanach'', which Aleksić had translated and excerpted in ''Dada Tank''.

Legacy

In the late 1960s, novelist

Bora Ćosić Bora Ćosić (; born 5 April 1932) is a Serbian, Croatian and Yugoslav novelist, essayist, translator, public intellectual, and dissident. He wrote about 50 books, as well as several theater plays, which were played with great success in the ...

published the first reprints of ''

'' and ''Dada Jazz'' in the Neo-avantgarde pro-

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental performance art, art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finishe ...

magazine ''Rok''.

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Sources

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Background

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Legacy

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