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Modern lusts : Ernest Borneman-- jazz critic, filmmaker, sexologist / Detlef Siegfried, Noah Harley, Jennifer Neuheiser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegfried, Detlef, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexologists--Germany--Biography.
- Sexologists.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Music critics--Germany--Biography.
- Music critics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2020.
- Summary:
- As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar intellectual life.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “In Me You Have Someone on Whom There Is No Relying” Constants and Constructs
- Chapter 2 Hearing: The Ethnology of Jazz
- Chapter 3 Seeing: Life on the Big Screen
- Chapter 4 Touching: Sex and Society
- Conclusion: Bodies along the Roadside
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-633-2
- 1-78920-289-2
- OCLC:
- 1191083744
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