Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany

by Michael H. Kater

Book Overview

When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast caf s reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere." Eager to look ahead after the crushing defeat of World War I, Weimar Germany embraced the modernism that swept through Europe and was crazy over jazz. But with the rise of National Socialism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195050096
• ISBN13: 9780195050097
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"