Dada Jazz was a Yugoslav Dadaist single issue publication published in Zagreb in September 1922 and edited by Dragan AleksiÃÂ. AleksiÃÂ published Dada Tank as a response to Branko Ve Poljanski and his brother Ljubomir MiciÃÂ's anti-Dada publication Dada-Jok 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's Dada Almanach.
After falling out with the representative of Dada in Yugoslavia, Dragan AleksiÃÂ, the Zenitists Branko Ve Poljanski and Ljubomir Miciàpublished an anti-Dada single issue publication in May 1922 called Dada-Jok. 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, Aleksiàpublished two single-issue pamphlets of his own â Dada Tank in June and Dada Jazz in September 1922.
Dada Jazz reprinted Dragan AleksiÃÂ's 1921 essay "Dadaism" from Zenit, subtly reminding people of his seniority over Ljubomir MiciÃÂ. It included a major text by Tristan Tzara, 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 AleksiÃÂ. On the centerfold two pages was printed the typographic picture-poem "Smaknu" (Execution), a translation into Serbo-Croatian of a Hungarian poem by ÃÂdám Csont that had originally appeared, like Erwin Enders's "Greek Fire" published in Dada Tank, in the May 1922 issue of the Vienna-based publication MA. Tzara's work in Dada Jazz was published in its original French.
Although Dada Jazz has been characterized as a mere footnote to Dada Tank, it was in fact a very different project. Its cover designated it to be a "Dada anthology", analogous to Richard Huelsenbeck's Dada Almanach, which AleksiÃÂ had translated and excerpted in Dada Tank.
In the late 1960s, novelist Bora ÃÂosiÃÂ published the first reprints of Dada Tank and Dada Jazz in the Neo-avantgarde pro-Fluxus magazine Rok.