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The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II

The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II

Studdert, Will

Hardcover

Series: Library of World War II Studies

RadioGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1784538582
ISBN13: 9781784538583
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 18 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled degenerate' by Hitler's cultural apparatus, jazz was adopted by the Allies to win the hearts and minds of the German public. It was also used by the Nazi Minister for Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, to deliver a message of Nazi cultural and military superiority. When Goebbels co-opted young German and foreign musicians into Charlie and his Orchestra' and broadcast their anti-Allied lyrics across the English Channel, jazz took centre stage in the propaganda war that accompanied World War II on the ground. The Jazz War is based on the largely unheard oral testimony of the personalities behind the German and British wartime radio broadcasts, and chronicles the evolving relationship between jazz music and the Axis and Allied war e orts.

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