1st Edition
Free Action Jazz as a Catalyst in West German Arts and Culture
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 postwar 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
Biography
Andrew Wright Hurley is a 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.
