"That's Jazz Made in Germany!": Hallo, Fraulein! and the Limits of Democratic Pedagogy

Rudolf Jugert's 1949 German-jazz musical Hallo, Fräulein! transmutes and inverts many of the conventions of the Hollywood musical in order to comment on the cultural and racial stakes of the American occupation of Germany following World War II. Made under the supervision of the U.S. military government, the film unsettles the proposition of cultural reorientation and the definition of democratic culture in general.