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"An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided Berlin when protest and punk rock, bohemia...
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Features February 2009 performance from Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester in Berlin, Germany's Admiralpalast. Artistic director for the project was Michael Balhaus(3 time-Oscar Nominated Cinematographer). Also included in this package is a DVD with an entire 'Making of' the concert tour as well as an audio CD containing ten previously unreleased tracks that are not featured on the DVD - Live Performance.
19) Golden age
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By the early 1920s, the influence of American jazz was apparent all over Europe. Musicians wore out the latest imported 78s as they picked up the new language, then went on to absorb what they had heard into their own ways of playing. That in turn gave birth to new styles that soon attracted audiences back in the US. And when Jewish musicians -- not least Kurt Weill -- began fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s, America was often where they ended up, already...
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