Different drummers : jazz in the culture of Nazi Germany /
When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast cafes reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere." Eager to look ahead...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations; Introduction: The Ambiguous Culture: Jazz in the Weimar Republic; 1. On the Index: The Third Reich's Prewar Campaign; Ideological Foundations and Polemics; First Public Controls; Raiding Jews and Jazz; Broadcasting and Recordings; Attempts at German Jazz
- 2. Jazz Defiant: The Reassertion of a Culture; Jazz Alive; The Jazz Congregation and Its High Priests; Jazz Within Politics; 3. Jazz Goes to War: Compliance and Defiance, September 1939 to August 1942; Demands of the Military; Jazz as Propaganda; The War inside the Great Germanic Reich
- Hamburg's Different Drummers4. Near Defeat: Jazz Toward the ""Final Victory, "" September 1942 to May 1945; Compromise and Failure; The Jazz Victims; Epilogue: The Final Victory: Postwar Jazz Triumphant; Notes; Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z