The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II by Will Studdert (2017)
In WWII, a fresh arsenal of instruments and tools, meaning weapons and other new means of warfare, was used for
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The Jazz Republic. Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany by Jonathan O. Wipplinger (2017)
Germany’s capital Berlin in the 1920s was a very special place due to a number of radical and energetic developments.
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Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins by David F. Garcia (2017)
The period roughly between the 1930s and the 1950s is at the center of this study. That is, how writers,
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The Original Blues. The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (2017)
To the rather limited selection of venues that blacks could attend in the late 19th century, African-American vaudeville contributed a
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Jazz in Word: European (Non-) Fiction by Kirsten Krick-Aigner and Marc-Oliver Schuster (eds.) (2018)
In May 2014, the “Jazz in Word” conference was hosted at the Amerika Haus in Vienna, and the huge, interdisciplinary
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Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney (2017)
Afro-modernity always had distinctive features that were derived from the politics of African-derived peoples, thus this development was a unique
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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein (2017)
While today expressions like “cool,” “being cool,” “acting cool” or having a “cool” outlook on life are present almost anywhere
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