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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

Germany’s capital Berlin in the 1920s was a very special place due to a number of radical and energetic developments.

The period roughly between the 1930s and the 1950s is at the center of this study. That is, how writers,

To the rather limited selection of venues that blacks could attend in the late 19th century, African-American vaudeville contributed a

In May 2014, the “Jazz in Word” conference was hosted at the Amerika Haus in Vienna, and the huge, interdisciplinary

Afro-modernity always had distinctive features that were derived from the politics of African-derived peoples, thus this development was a unique

While today expressions like “cool,” “being cool,” “acting cool” or having a “cool” outlook on life are present almost anywhere