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*This season* the destabilizing effects of world leaders dying continues with the monumental death of Lenin, which ushers in a new age of turning the man into a symbol. Indeed all of Europe is still thrown up in chaos following the Great War, with countries such as Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Germany all discussing ways to redraw or rethink the map of Europe, and the centuries old  Ottoman Empire also officially ceases to exist. 

Not all is geopolitics though. In the US, Jazz music becomes even more mainstream as a orchestra adopts it at a time when many our outraged with the art form because of its roots in U.S Black Culture.





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Goodbye Lenin, Hello Jazz! | B2W:ZEITGEIST! I E.22 Winter 1924

The winter of 1924 sees the death of not only Vladimir Lenin but also the Ottoman Caliphate. However, it also sees something fresh and completely unique enter the American mainstream. George Gershwin has given the Jazz Age a soundtrack. Subscribe to our World War Two series: https://www.youtube.com/c/worldwartwo?sub_confirmation=1 Like TimeGhost on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhost-1667151356690693/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell Written by: Francis Van Berkel Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Francis Van Berkel Image Research by: Lucas Aimó Edited by: Lucas Aimó Sound design: Marek Kamiński Colorizations: Klimbim, Lucas Aimó Sources: Wikipedia Commons Library of Congress Museum of the City of New York Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound: Peacekeepers - Dream Cave Prestige - Howard Harper-Barnes Louisiana - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Never Forget - Fabien Tell Break Free - Fabien Tell Clarinet Marmalade Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band In Our Holiday Home - Arthur Benson A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Great presentation. Like many of Time Ghost presentations, it focuses on much that Western history glosses over. Kudos again

Anonymous

Terrific episode. My take is the hero of this presentation is Gershwin while Lenin should have been swept aside in the dustbin of history.

Marc Steenbergen Netherlands

Van Vechten thinks "It is a riot" :-) OK disregard if you don't speak Dutch ;-) . But seriously a fantastic episode!

Anonymous

Whiteman wanted to hire black musicians but couldn't- there was no way that white society would tolerate seeing a "mixed" orchestra. Eventually he would have two of the best white jazz musicians in his ranks- Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer. White and black musicians are recording together, however in bands put together specifically for that purpose. Check out Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four's "Blue Blood Blues", for example. Jelly Roll Morton will be the first to transcribe jazz into sheet music (and claim to have invented it) and a band of white musicians "The Original Dixieland Jass Band" will claim that they invented it and that black people had nothing to do with it.

Anonymous

A little product placement. Hope it supports the cause.

Anonymous

btw Tito’s is my favorite vodka

Anonymous

It's very interesting that Lenin said that "any cook should be able to run the country" because his personal chef was the grandfather of Vladimir Putin