A recreation of the memories and creative moments when jazzmen under Hitler achieved a music that defied the war's savagery, and an exploration of the continuing presence of jazz under totalitarian governments in Eastern Europe and South Africa. 45 black-and-white photographs.
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A recreation of the memories and creative moments when jazzmen under Hitler achieved a music that defied the war's savagery, and an exploration of the continuing presence of jazz under totalitarian governments in Eastern Europe and South Africa. 45 black-and-white photographs.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Fine in very good dust jacket. No previous owner markings or bookplates, no remainder marking. Dust jacket has no chips. has a 1/2" closed tear and minor edge wear. Not price-clipped.
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Good. USED Good Former Library Hardcover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in GOOD condition in Mylar cover. It has normal library markings including card holder/reference sticker and library call number on spine. Has school and/or library name blacked out with marker and/or white blackout label on white page edges and inside. Some folded or wrinkled pages.
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Fine in Near Very Good jacket. 8vo. 197pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or cream papered boards with gray cloth spine in jacket. Jacket edge worn with some rubbing to folds. When jazzmen under Hitler achieved a music that defied the savagery of war. Extraordinary stories of jazz musicians including that of the Ghetto Swingers, a jazz band of Jewish prisoners that "toured" Auschwitz and Theresienstadt; the Lufwaffe pilot who tuned to the BBC hoping to catch a few bars of Glenn Miller before bombing its antenna; the suave black bandleader who was the toast of Warsaw during the occupation; and Django Reinhardt, the brilliant guitarist and quintessential gypsy who played and lived as if there were no war and refused to leave France even as thousands of his people were shipped to concentration camps.
