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Jazzing Up the Netherlands. How American Mass Culture Shook Up Dutch Society
9 April 2024
During the 1920s, the Netherlands excelled in dullness, it is said. But historian Kees Wouters shows how the cobwebs of pillarized society were blown away by a new musical wind from the West: jazz! Exalted by many, villified by others, Dutch musicians playing American jazz conquered music halls and