Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O.

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth cent

From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever

Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.