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The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

German HistoryJazzWorld Music

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ISBN10: 047205340X
ISBN13: 9780472053407
Publisher: Univ Of Michigan Pr
Published: Apr 14 2017
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German culture and follows the debate over jazz through the fourteen years of Germany's first democracy. He explores visiting jazz musicians including the African American Sam Wooding and the white American Paul Whiteman and how their performances were received by German critics and artists. The Jazz Republic also engages with the meaning of jazz in debates over changing gender norms and jazz's status between paradigms of high and low culture. By looking at German translations of Langston Hughes's poetry, as well as Theodor W. Adorno's controversial rejection of jazz in light of racial persecution, Wipplinger examines how jazz came to be part of German cultural production more broadly in both the US and Germany, in the early 1930s.

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