Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (12 April 1915 – 4 June 1995), also known by his self-chosen anglicisation Ernest Borneman, was a German

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ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investiga ...

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agitator,

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

musician and

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Bibliography

Novels

*'' The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor'' (1937) (as Cameron McCabe); London : Picador Classic, 2016 (with an introduction by

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), *''

Tremolo In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are multiple types of tremolo: a rapid repetition of a note, an alternation between two different notes, or a variation in volume. Tremolos may be either ''measured'' ...

'' (1938) *''Face the Music'' (1954) *'' Tomorrow Is Now'' (1959) *'' The Compromisers'' (1961) *''The Man Who Loved Women'' (aka '' Landscape with Nudes'') (1968)

Screenplays

*'' Face The Music'' (1954), aka ''The Black Glove'' in the U.S.A. *'' Bang, You're Dead'' (1954), co-written with Guy Elmes, aka ''Game Of Danger''

Jazz writings

*"Swing Music. An Encyclopaedia of Jazz" (unpublished typescript, 580pp., 1940) *''A Critic Looks at Jazz'' (1946; collected criticism from his column in the jazz periodical '' The Record Changer'', "An Anthropologist Looks at Jazz"; the only jazz book ever published by Borneman) * "The Roots of Jazz", in Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy, eds., ''Jazz'' (New York: Rinehart, 1959)

Non-fiction

*''Lexikon der Liebe und Erotik'' (1968) *''Psychoanalyse des Geldes. Eine kritische Untersuchung psychoanalytischer Geldtheorien'' (1973) *''Studien zu Befreiung des Kindes'', 3 vols. (1973) *''Der obszöne Wortschatz der Deutschen—Sex im Volksmund'' (1974) *''Das Patriarchat. Ursprung und Zukunft unseres Gesellschaftssystems'' (1975) *''Die Ur-Szene. Eine Selbstanalyse'' (

autobiographical An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share thei ...

, 1977) *''Reifungsphasen der Kindheit. Sexuelle Entwicklungspsychologie'' (1981) *''Die Welt der Erwachsenen in den verbotenen Reimen deutschsprachiger Stadtkinder'' (1982) *''Rot-weiß-rote Herzen. Das Liebes-, Ehe- und Geschlechtsleben der Alpenrepublik'' (1984) *''Das Geschlechtsleben des Kindes. Beiträge zur Kinderanalyse und Sexualpädologie'' (1985) *''Die neue Eifersucht. Starke Männer zeigen Schwäche: Sie werden eifersüchtig'' (1986) *''Ullstein Enzyklopädie der Sexualität'' (1990) *''Sexuelle Marktwirtschaft. Vom Waren- und Geschlechtsverkehr in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft'' (1992) *''Die Zukunft der Liebe'' (2001) (his last book) Borneman was also a scriptwriter for the British TV series '' The Adventures of Aggie'' (1956) about the adventures of a fashion designer on international assignments. Borneman directed the 20 minute Canadian

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'' Northland'' (

1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

) and also the 15 minute documentary written by Leslie McFarlane, '' Target - Berlin'' (''Objectif Berlin'') (1944).

References

External links

Borneman the jazz fan
(in German)

''Wilhelm-Reich-Blätter'', Heft 3, No.4 (1979), pp. 74–86 (in German). 1915 births 1995 suicides 20th-century German novelists German communists German crime fiction writers German male novelists German sexologists Writers from Berlin Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom Suicides in Austria 1995 deaths {{Germany-novelist-stub