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Author : Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472053407
Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century
Author : Jonathan Otto Wipplinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0542791358
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.
Author : Helma Kaldewey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486187
Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.
Author : Andrew Wright Hurley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451620
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.
Author : Steve Gordon
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 0864862423
Basil Breakey photographed and befriended these township jazz musicians, and so built up a significant historical record. Here are Kippie Moeketsi, Dollar Brand ( Abdullah Ibrahim), Chris MacGregor, Basil Coetzee, Barney Rachabane, and others.
Author : Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052182995X
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Author : Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520211391
"This significant contribution to German history pioneers a conceptually sophisticated approach to German-German relations. Poiger has much to say about the construction of both gender norms and masculine and feminine identities, and she has valuable insights into the role that notions of race played in defining and reformulating those identities and prescriptive behaviors in the German context. The book will become a 'must read' for German historians."—Heide Fehrenbach, author of Cinema in Democratizing Germany "Poiger breaks new ground in this history of the postwar Germanies. The book will serve as a model for all future studies of comparative German-German history."—Robert G. Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood "Jazz, Rock, and Rebels exemplifies the exciting work currently emerging out of transnational analyses. [A] well-written and well-argued study."—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans
Author : Brendan Wolfe
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609385064
Brendan Wolfe's Finding Bix is a personal and often surprising attempt to connect music, history, and legend. A native of Bix Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, Iowa, Wolfe grew up seeing Bix's iconic portrait on everything from posters to parking garages. He never heard his music, though, until cast to play a bit part in an Italian biopic filmed in Davenport. Then, after writing a newspaper review of a book about Beiderbecke, Wolfe unexpectedly received a letter from the late musician's nephew scolding him for getting a number of facts wrong. This is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right.
Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781583677865
A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War. Jazz and Justice examines the economic, social, and political forces that shaped this music into a phenomenal US—and Black American—contribution to global arts and culture. Horne assembles a galvanic story depicting what may have been the era’s most virulent economic—and racist—exploitation, as jazz musicians battled organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, and other variously malignant forces dominating the nightclub scene where jazz became known. Horne pays particular attention to women artists, such as pianist Mary Lou Williams and trombonist Melba Liston, and limns the contributions of musicians with Native American roots. This is the story of a beautiful lotus, growing from the filth of the crassest form of human immiseration.
Author : Wynton Marsalis,Geoffrey Ward
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780812969085
In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding of the central idea of jazz–the unique balance between self-expression and sacrifice for the common good exemplified on the bandstand–can enrich every aspect of our lives, from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the schoolroom to City Hall. Along the way, Marsalis helps us understand the life-changing message of the blues, reveals secrets about playing–and listening–and passes on wisdom he has gleaned from working with three generations of great musicians. Illuminating and inspiring, Moving to Higher Ground is a master class on jazz and life, conducted by a brilliant American artist.
Author : Penny VON ESCHEN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044715
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and their ideas further than the State Department anticipated. Both in concert and after hours, through political statements and romantic liaisons, these musicians broke through the government's official narrative and gave their audiences an unprecedented vision of the black American experience. In the process, new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East--collaborations that fostered greater racial pride and solidarity. Though intended as a color-blind promotion of democracy, this unique Cold War strategy unintentionally demonstrated the essential role of African Americans in U.S. national culture. Through the tales of these tours, Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.
Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571320110
From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.' 'All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine.' Kirkus Reviews
Author : Frederic Ramsey,Charles Edward Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : African American musicians
ISBN : OCLC:1393048604
Author : Bruce Boyd Raeburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 0472116754
A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history
Author : Stephen Schloesser
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802087188
Stephen Schloesser's Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery.
