Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany
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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 caf s reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere." Eager to look ahead after the crushing defeat of World War I, Weimar Germany embraced the modernism that swept through Europe and was crazy over jazz. But with the rise of National Socialism...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195050096
ISBN13:9780195050097
Release Date:April 1992
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"
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