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OK, I accept this might be OT, but with Holocaust Memorial day I thought this was a nice story of human interest. A cross of culture in the face of war. I hope other find it worth reading, and listening to.
Afro-Jewish band dominated Nazi-occupied Denmarks music scene
The mere notion of an Afro-Danish orchestra with three black musicians and a Jewish woman that sold out all the biggest Copenhagen venues during the German occupation when the Nazis were practically goose-stepping through the streets is surreal, says lecturer Anne Dvinge from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
Anne Dvinge has just published an article about Harlem Kiddies entitled Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Afro-Danish jazz band Harlem Kiddies and discourses of race and resistance in 1940s Denmark in the international journal African and Black Diaspora.
In the article, she describes how the Harlem Kiddies, which consisted of Afro-Danish musicians Jimmy and Johnny Campbell, Kaj Timmermann, and Jewish singer Raquel Rastenni, became a major hit during World War II. And she explains how a wartime orchestra with this extraordinary line-up could become so popular.
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Afro-Jewish band dominated Nazi-occupied Denmarks music scene
The mere notion of an Afro-Danish orchestra with three black musicians and a Jewish woman that sold out all the biggest Copenhagen venues during the German occupation when the Nazis were practically goose-stepping through the streets is surreal, says lecturer Anne Dvinge from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
Anne Dvinge has just published an article about Harlem Kiddies entitled Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Afro-Danish jazz band Harlem Kiddies and discourses of race and resistance in 1940s Denmark in the international journal African and Black Diaspora.
In the article, she describes how the Harlem Kiddies, which consisted of Afro-Danish musicians Jimmy and Johnny Campbell, Kaj Timmermann, and Jewish singer Raquel Rastenni, became a major hit during World War II. And she explains how a wartime orchestra with this extraordinary line-up could become so popular.
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