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K. Krick-Aigner / M.-O. Schuster: Introduction - S. Feinstein: Jazz as a Liberator of Language - Y. Karsunke: bloody Mary - J. N. Pfeifer: Poems - Pre- and Post-World War I - M. de Ridder: "This Music Has Arisen from the Trenches": Jazz as a Measure of Modernity in European Literature after World War I - W. Lamprecht: From the Cakewalk to the Foxtrot - Two-stepping between Dance and Propaganda: The Sound of World War I - K. Nowakowski: A Racketeers´ Music? Reactions to Early Jazz in Vienna - P. Cohen-Avenel: Jazz and the Revolution of Dance Music in Dance-Manuals (Koebner, Pollack, Jaffé, Baresel) between 1913 and 1926 - The Interwar Period - K. Krick- Aigner: "Because she´s got to dance": Jazz Dance in the Literary Imagination of German Expressionist Women Poets - L. Tessitore: "Sprachen-Ragtime": Jazz Influences on Walter Mehring´s Poems for Cabaret - S. Kluge: Delightful Orgies: An Invitation for a New Discussion on Thomas Mann and Jazz - F. Opitz: "Bäbä, tu. Bäbä, tut!": Jazz and Literature in Symphonie für Jazz by René Schickele - V. Hofeneder: Syncopes and Infl ation: The Rhythm of Austrian Literature in the Interwar Period - P.-H. Kucher: "Ein Durcheinander mit viel Jazzmusik": 1928 as a Case Study on Controversial-productive Jazz (Culture) Reception in the Viennese Feuilleton, Literature, Music, and Theater - H. Schreckenberger: Jazz and the "New Woman": Lili Grün´s Novel Alles ist Jazz (1933) - 1945 - Present - G. Divers: "legt los, leute, haut rein": US-American Jazz in German Poetry since 1945 - M.-O. Schuster: The Transnational Spin in Marginal Jazz Passages in GDR Literature - H. Justin: Hearing and Writing in the Staircase of History: Remarks on an Imaginary Meeting between Kafka and Borneman - A. W. Hurley: "Always within reach, trumpet gold, interpretation-free, above suspicion"? Günter Grass, Jazz, and Literature - T. Antonic: "God´s empty chair", or: You Can´t Dig It - Jazz & Poetry of the Beat Generation and Beat-inspired Jazz & Poetry in Austria - S. Richter: Performing Jazz and Poetry: Musings about a Fictitious Concert - H. Neundlinger: Performance - Pattern - Improvisation: The Relationship between Body, Sound, and Text in Christian Loidl´s Poetry - L. Uzukauskait˜e: Jazz in Lithuanian Literature - V. Mihaiu: Global & Local, Words & Jazz in Today´s World

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Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Ph.D., ist Professorin und Institutsvorständin am Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures am Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen deutschsprachige Nachkriegsliteratur, Jewish Studies und österreichische Sinti-Kultur. Marc-Oliver Schuster, Ph.D., ist Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Wien (Germanistik) und arbeitet v.a. über deutschsprachige Literatur nach 1945 sowie zu interdisziplinären Themen (Postmoderne, Semiotik, Philosophie, Jazz in deutschsprachiger Literatur).

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