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.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
List of 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
About the author
Detlef Siegfried is Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His publications include Time Is on My Side. Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre (2006) and 1968: Protest, Revolte, Gegenkultur (2018).
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