Michael H. Kater, Professor of History at York University, Toronto, gives a short history of Jazz in Weimar Germany. He writes, “American jazz was imported into Germany in the early 1920s” (145). However, “[T]he great majority of German musicians still found jazz very difficult to master”, which is why “Americans and a few Englishmen… came… Read more

“Singing the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Translation, and Diasporic Blues” is the sixth chapter of the book The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany, written by Jonathan O. Wipplinger, by Assistant Professor of German at the  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The book is a history of the influence of Jazz in Weimar… Read more