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

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Christian Thompson
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781438469867
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6986-7
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: SUNY Series, Philosophy and Ra; SUNY Series, Philosophy and Ra; SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Musikgeschichte, Deutsch, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics