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Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

Thompson, Mark Christian

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Philosophy and Race

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1438469861
ISBN13: 9781438469867
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2019
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

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.

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