List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: German Jazz and the Metronome of Race
1. The Jazz Paradox: Race and Totalitarian Politics in German Jazz Reception
2. The Jazz Machine: Brecht and the Politics of Jazz
3. The Monkey's Trick: Herman Hesse and the Music of Decline
4. The Music of Fascism: Adorno on Jazz
5. Jazz-Heinis: Klaus Mann and Jazz Ontology
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Mark Christian Thompson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars and Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic.