African-American entertainers in pre-jazz Europe

Talking Europe: The UCL European Institute podcast

In conversation with the UCL European Institute's Uta Staiger, the historian of modern Germany, Jeff Bowersox, discusses the arrival of Black American entertainers in Central Europe around 1900 - prior to the high modernist forms of American entertainment, including jazz. He also explores what the ambivalent responses of German-speaking audiences and critics tell us about the way Germans saw themselves - in a rapidly and radically changing global order.