The Jazz Republic
Title | The Jazz Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan O. Wipplinger |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0472900811 |
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. Using a wide array of sources from newspapers, modernist and popular journals, as well as items from the music press, this work intervenes in the debate over the German encounter with jazz by arguing that the music was no mere “symbol” of Weimar’s modernism and modernity. Rather than reflecting intra-German and/or European debates, it suggests that jazz and its practitioners, African American, white American, Afro-European, German and otherwise, shaped Weimar culture in a central way.
The Jazz Republic
Title | The Jazz Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Otto Wipplinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 794 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Germany |
ISBN | 9780542791352 |
This dissertation examines the German encounter and engagement with jazz music during the Weimar Republic through the three interwoven issues of music, race, and American culture. Through close readings of newspaper and journal articles, as well as analysis of discussions of music, theater, and the visual arts, it reconstructs jazz's multiple locations within Weimar's cultural landscape and demonstrates how jazz played a pivotal role in defining Weimar's modernity. It suggests that jazz music occupied a central position in the Weimar Republic, not as the reflection of something outside German culture, but as one of the most complicated and contested objects through which this culture and its modernity were imagined, constructed, and defined.
The Jazz And Blues Lover's Guide To The U.s.
Title | The Jazz And Blues Lover's Guide To The U.s. PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Bird |
Publisher | Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1994-04-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
This completely updated guide tells readers where to find everything from the current music scene to major jazz/blues landmarks in 26 American cities and the Mississippi Delta. Includes city-by-city listings for clubs, events, radio stations, anecdotes from club owners and performers, and jazz/blues history. Photos.
A People's Music
Title | A People's Music PDF eBook |
Author | Helma Kaldewey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108486185 |
Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.
Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations
Title | Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Hood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Durant Park (Oakland, Calif.) |
ISBN |
The Return of Jazz
Title | The Return of Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Wright Hurley |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857451626 |
Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922–2000), author of the world’s best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi era. German musicians began, in a highly productive way, to question their all-too-eager adoption of American culture and how they sought to make valid artistic statements reflecting their identity as Europeans. This book explores the significance of some of Berendt’s most important writings and record productions. Particular attention is given to the “Jazz Meets the World” encounters that he engineered with musicians from Japan, Tunisia, Brazil, Indonesia, and India. This proto-“world music” demonstrates how some West Germans went about creating a post-nationalist identity after the Third Reich. Berendt’s powerful role as the West German “Jazz Pope” is explored, as is the groundswell of criticism directed at him in the wake of 1968.
Jazzmen
Title | Jazzmen PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Ramsey |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |