Modern lusts
Subtitle: Ernest Borneman
By: Detlef Siegfried
Contributors: Recorded Books, Inc
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781789202892
Subjects: Music critics; Biography; Motion picture producers and directors; Sexologists; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Description: 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 contents: title: Modern Lusts; title: Contents; title: Illustrations; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1-"In Me You Have Someone on Whom There Is No Relying": Constants and Constructs; title: Chapter 2-Hearing: The Ethnology of Jazz; title: Chapter 3-Seeing: Life on the Big Screen; title: Chapter 4-Touching: Sex and Society; title: Conclusion-Bodies along the Roadside; title: Bibliography; title: Index