Swing Under The Nazis: Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom – Mike Zwerin, 1985
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Swing Under The Nazis: Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom – Mike Zwerin, 1985
Quiffs, platforms, cut-off zoot suits, sunglasses and pop-socks, set off with a Neville Chamberlain umbrella and a smirk: les Zazous of wartime Paris kick-started club culture with swing records in secret cellars. Along with jazz musicans across Europe they showed up the Nazis as the squarest, grouchiest daddios in history. A laid-back look from American Parisian Zwerin.
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