Thompson Anti-Music

Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6988-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Mark Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction: German Jazz and the Metronome of Race

1. The Jazz Paradox: Race and Totalitarian Politics in German Jazz Reception

2. The Jazz Machine: Brecht and the Politics of Jazz

3. The Monkey’s Trick: Herman Hesse and the Music of Decline

4. The Music of Fascism: Adorno on Jazz

5. Jazz-Heinis: Klaus Mann and Jazz Ontology

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Christian Thompson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars and Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic.