Modern Lusts - Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman's journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar intellectual life.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. "In me you have someone on whom there is no relying": Constants and Constructs

Chapter 2. Hearing: The Ethnology of Jazz

Chapter 3. Seeing: Life on the Big Screen

Chapter 4. Touching: Sex and Society

Conclusion: Bodies along the Roadside

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Detlef Siegfried is Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His publications include Time Is on My Side. Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre (2006) and 1968: Protest, Revolte, Gegenkultur (2018).

Summary

Detlef Siegfried's long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman's journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Detlef Siegfried
• Assisted by: Noah Harley (Translation), Jennifer Neuheiser (Translation)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781789202885
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-288-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Deutschland, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Germany, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Biography / Autobiography, Biography: arts & entertainment, Social and cultural history, Biography: arts and entertainment, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General