Andrew Wright Hurley

Free Action

Jazz as a Catalyst in West German Arts and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032840369
• ISBN-10: 1032840366
• Artikelnr.: 73389944

Autorenporträt

Andrew Wright Hurley is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and historian who has written widely on jazz in Germany and around the world, on popular music and contemporary German fiction, and on German-Australian colonial entanglements.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Atmospheric Conditions Permitting: Germany's Second, More
Enduring Jazz Age 2. In Phase: Jazz, the Spoken Word and Recited Lyrik
(Poetry) 3. Drums, Trumpets and Memory: Jazz as an Ambiguous Stimulant for
the Post-War West German Novel 4. Black Performers, Jewish Ghosts, and the
Illustrated Travel Journal: The German Jazz Photography Album of the 1950s
and 1960s 5. Hearing and Seeing Jazz in Film and TV 6. Visualising Jazz in
Graphic Design: "Music Captured by the Retina" 7. From Freedom in Paint to
the Jazz Action: Jazz and Fine Arts 8. Conclusion