Jazz anxiety and the European fear of cultural change: towards a transnational history of a political emotion

Gusejnova, Dina ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-9530 (2016) Jazz anxiety and the European fear of cultural change: towards a transnational history of a political emotion. Cultural History, 5 (1). pp. 26-50. ISSN 2045-290X

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From the interwar period onwards, music now known as jazz transcended geographic and political boundaries thanks to increased mobility and new media. Commonly associated with American mass culture, jazz music and jazz musicianship evoked strong emotions, ranging from love to hate. In this paper, feelings about jazz as a new form of cultural anxiety are the main subject of analysis. By looking at jazz as an emblem of different kinds of fear of the non-European, we can reconstruct the changing perception of Europe's internal frontiers from the dissolution of Europe's continental empires to the early Cold War.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2019 Edinburgh University Pres
Divisions:	International History
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General) M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2019 11:24
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2024 22:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101412

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