From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers Between African America and Germany

ISBN-13: 9780870139895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 378 str.

Maria I. Diedrich; Jurgen Heinrichs

Opis

"From Black to Schwarz" explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany, with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expressionmusic, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviewsthese essays trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration, and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, survived the Third Reich s Degenerate Art campaigns, and (with new media available to further exchanges), is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic."