ISBN:
9781438469874
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9781438469867
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvi, 200 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Series Statement:
SUNY series, philosophy and race
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
781.65089/96073043
Keywords:
Geschichte 1918-1939
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Philosophy, German 20th century
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Jazz History and criticism 20th century
;
Blacks Race identity 20th century
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History
;
Jazz
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Schwarze
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Nationalsozialismus
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Ethnische Identität
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Afroamerikanische Musik
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Deutschland
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Deutschland
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Schwarze
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Jazz
;
Afroamerikanische Musik
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Geschichte 1918-1939
Abstract:
Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between left-wing and right-wing interests: for the left, jazz marked the death knell of authoritarian Prussian society; for the right, jazz was complicit as an American import threatening the chaos of modernization and mass politics. This conflict was resolved in the early 1930s as the left abandoned jazz in the face of Nazi victory, having come to see the music in collusion with the totalitarian culture industry. Mark Christian Thompson recounts the story of this intellectual trajectory and describes how jazz came to be associated with repressive, virulently racist fascism in Germany. By examining writings by Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, T.W. Adorno, and Klaus Mann, and archival photographs and images, Thompson brings together debates in German, African American, and jazz studies, and charts a new path for addressing antiblack racism in cultural criticism and theory. - Mark Christian Thompson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars and Kafka’s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic. (Klappentext)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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