TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wipplinger,Jonathan O.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Jazz Republic : : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / 
T2  - Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
SN  - 9780472122660
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Music and race
KW  - fast
KW  - Jazz
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Civilization
KW  - American influences
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Ethnomusicology
KW  - Musique et race
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - 1921-1930
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Germany
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Jazz occupies Germany -- The aural shock of modernity -- Writing symphonies in jazz -- Syncopating the mass ornament -- Bridging the great divides -- Singing the Harlem Renaissance -- Jazz's silence; Open Access
N2  - "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. He 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/52289/
ER  -