caa a22 4500 386389063 CHVBK 20180307112108.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0261143000003342 doi S0261143000003342 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0261143000003342 Willett Ralph Hot swing and the dissolute life: youth, style and popular music in Europe 1939-49 [Elektronische Daten] [Ralph Willett] In the late thirties, the syncopated rhythms of American jazz swept through Europe, an event encouraged by both the US record industry and Hollywood. In Germany, Fascist resistance to jazz culminated in the imposition of a ban by the Reich Chamber of Music on ‘jazzified, judified dance music', a convenient way of dealing with American competition. Nevertheless Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson were still entered in Brunswick's German catalogue for 1939, and German bands continued to swing (on radio and records) into the forties. It is not wholly surprising to read of Goebbels and Goering dancing, in uniform, to the swing music of Jack Hylton and his Orchestra at the Berlin Press Ball in 1937. Among the young, however, swing was already beginning to symbolise a resistance to authority and non-cooperation with the Third Reich. Even newspaper articles intended to demonstrate the demoralising and corruptive effects of jazz whetted the appetite. Thus, a Frankfurter Zeitung article on ‘The Jitterbug' attacked the bandleader Harry James, but also explained the latest swing terms such as ‘jive' and ‘hep-cat'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Popular Music Cambridge University Press 8/2(1989-05), 157-163 0261-1430 8:2<157 1989 8 PMU https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000003342 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000003342 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Willett Ralph NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Popular Music Cambridge University Press 8/2(1989-05), 157-163 0261-1430 8:2<157 1989 8 PMU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge