‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’: Afro-Danish jazz band Harlem Kiddies and discourses of race and resistance in 1940s Denmak

TY - JOUR

T1 - ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’

T2 - Afro-Danish jazz band Harlem Kiddies and discourses of race and resistance in 1940s Denmak

AU - Dvinge, Anne

PY - 2014/1/2

Y1 - 2014/1/2

N2 - In 1940, three young Afro-Danes came together to form what was to become one of the most popular swing bands in Scandinavia, the Harlem Kiddies. This essay seeks to investigate the performance and reception history of the orchestra, especially during the years of the German occupation. This essay argues that the Harlem Kiddies became double signifiers of resistance, and their performance strategies complicate and contradict essentialist notions of race, nation, and cultural identity.

AB - In 1940, three young Afro-Danes came together to form what was to become one of the most popular swing bands in Scandinavia, the Harlem Kiddies. This essay seeks to investigate the performance and reception history of the orchestra, especially during the years of the German occupation. This essay argues that the Harlem Kiddies became double signifiers of resistance, and their performance strategies complicate and contradict essentialist notions of race, nation, and cultural identity.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Denmark

KW - Jazz

KW - Race

KW - german occupation

KW - cultural identity

KW - Performance

KW - Afro-Dansk jazz band

KW - Harlem Kiddies

KW - Race

KW - kulturel identitet

KW - den tyske besættelse

U2 - 10.1080/17528631.2013.858916

DO - 10.1080/17528631.2013.858916

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1752-8631

VL - 7

SP - 10

EP - 21

JO - African and Black Diaspora

JF - African and Black Diaspora

IS - 1

ER -