Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

Mark Christian Thompson

Published by SUNY Press 2018

Anti-Music

Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

Mark Christian Thompson

In the series SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438469881

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"Anti-Music offers original, even challenging, new insights on jazz in German literary and critical texts in the first half of the twentieth century." — Brecht Yearbook

"…offers a challenging new take on racial and musical imagery in German literature and philosophy of the early twentieth century." — Monatshefte

"…Thompson brings to light important details that in numerous instances would be easy to overlook, subjecting them to scrutiny that yields vital clues about the understanding and experience of jazz in the Weimar and Nazi eras." — Notes

"Anti-Music is an interesting and highly theoretical title that examines not just the definition and reception of jazz in Germany of the interwar years, but also the loosely connected topics and definitions of blackness, racial imagination, primitivism, white superiority, and cultural imperialism." — Jive-Talk

"This book synthesizes the ideological reception of jazz amongst a series of key German thinkers and cultural producers from the interwar era. It offers bold, sophisticated readings of their texts and of how they conceived of racial blackness. It is a major contribution to the field." — Andrew Wright Hurley, author of The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
German Jazz and the Metronome of Race Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
The Jazz Paradox Race and Totalitarian Politics in German Jazz Reception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Jazz Machine Brecht and the Politics of Jazz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Monkey's Trick Herman Hesse and the Music of Decline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
The Music of Fascism Adorno on Jazz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Jazz-Heinis Klaus Mann and Jazz Ontology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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Language: English
Publisher: SUNY Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 226
Illustrations
- Other: Total Illustrations: 14
Keywords: Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts : Music; Philosophy : Philosophy; Cultural Studies : German Culture; Cultural Studies : Cultural Studies; Literature : Literary Criticism

eBook

Published: May 22, 2018
ISBN: 9781438469881