Christian Broecking (5 June 1957 – 2 February 2021) was a German sociologist and musicologist, music critic, columnist, writer, editor, radio producer and author.
He held teaching positions at several universities in Germany and Switzerland and published several books on African-American music and its social and political contexts, as well as on his interviews with jazz musicians such as Max Roach, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rolins, Gregory Porter or the Swiss composer and pianist Irène Schweitzer.
The title of his 2011 PhD thesis in German can be translated as "The Marsalis-Nexus: Studies in the Societal Relevance of Afro-American Jazz, 1992-2007".
[9] He was a Senior Research Associate at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and taught music history at the Winterthurer Institut für aktuelle Musik in Switzerland.
[10] At the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Broecking curated and convened the international conferences "Lost in Diversity.