Pop Culture if the CP had won?

What would our pop-culture look like today if the Central Powers had won WW1 in a quick victory?

Feel free to speculate, extrapolate, and so forth.
 
Britain was neutral as the Schlieffen Plan was never drafted - therefore no invasion of Belgium. Alone, both France and Russia were defeated by early 1915. Hitler got himself killed.

Sounds like a better world than OTL in a lot of ways. I can't speculate too much on pop culture, but I think you would see a German-dominated pan-European economic sphere. That means a lot of the world's trade, at least, is done in the German currency and language. Expect to see German ideas on trade, industrial organization, and government become influential.

Great Britain is not going to be happy. The one thing they've been trying to prevent since Napoleon--Europe united under a single, potentially unfriendly regime--has occurred. I think a lot of the world's pop culture depends on what Britain does next. Does it try to rally the US and the Commonwealth? If so, the continuing importance of the Anglo-sphere will mean English is still an important language. However, if GB tries to line up between France, Russia, and other anti-status-quo powers for Round Two, and the US stays neutral, German culture will dominate.
 
Pop culture would probably be a lot like it is today. Maybe the German language would be commonplace in European music and literature. But other than that, I don't see why it would be radically different. I mean, Imperial Germany didn't exactly have an insane program of massive social engineering the way Nazi Germany did.
 
Pop culture would probably be a lot like it is today. Maybe the German language would be commonplace in European music and literature. But other than that, I don't see why culture would be radically different. I mean, Imperial Germany didn't exactly have an insane program of massive social engineering the way Nazi Germany did.
 
Sure you would dodge the Nazis but with German dominance in Europe you will soon see another, bigger war involving the British Empire. That war would be possibly more devestating than this 1914-1915 war.

Also Jazz was already growing in New Orleans by 1914.
 
How would Jazz and Art Deco develop or will they even exist?

Hard to say IMO.

As so far as Jazz goes, as someone mentioned, it was already developing by 1914, so i imagine that something very similar to OTL Jazz and the other genres that that spawned would develop at least in the Anglo sphere. In Germany and europe, i imagine that romantic and classical styles would be prominent, especially as a reaction to Anglo-American genres *.

As so far as Art Deco goes, a style similar might develop, but i imagine that neo-classicism and similar styles would probably be prominent, especially in German dominated Europe.

* The Wilhemine Germans before 1914 were quite Anglophobic and made a point of stressing the superiority of their Teutonic heroism and cultural authenticity, pure blood and triumph of the will against what they saw as souless Anglo-Saxon materialism. Take for example the name of Oscar Schmitz 1914 book "The Land of no Music".
 
* The Wilhemine Germans before 1914 were quite Anglophobic and made a point of stressing the superiority of their Teutonic heroism and cultural authenticity, pure blood and triumph of the will against what they saw as souless Anglo-Saxon materialism. Take for example the name of Oscar Schmitz 1914 book "The Land of no Music".

That's a simplification. Obviously there were some Anglophobic strands in German culture, and obviously some of them drew on the (not altogether unjustified :p) 19th C European view of Britain as the soulless land of capital accumulation and broken dreams.

However, the kaiser, who as facial hair at the time shows was able to set fashions, regarded us with mixed admiration and envy. Before the war, Anglo-German relations were - both ways - a bit schizophrenic.
 
I'm curious if Bauhaus would have risen to prominence in a more bourgeois. less introspective German culture. FWIW, I think could see it emerging gradually, perhaps even as the dialectic result of heavy, lifeless neo-classicism v. constructivism.
I can't imagine Fritz Lang, Kurt Weill or Bertolt Brecht would've enjoyed the notoriety they did under Wiemar. If somebody makes a timeline of this, perhaps Einstein could be a Sakharov analogue?
 
Britain was neutral as the Schlieffen Plan was never drafted - therefore no invasion of Belgium. Alone, both France and Russia were defeated by early 1915. Hitler got himself killed.

Right off the bat, you've got a shorter war, meaning a lot less slaughter, meaning in all likelihood no dadism.

Huge cultural butterflies from that...
 
Storyville would not be closed which would slow the diffusion of jazz.

Prohibition is less than 50/50 and if it does happen at all it will exempt beer.

Mencken's popularity took a hit 1916-1920 OTL due to his proGerman views. His cultural power would rise without interruption with a short war.

Joyce may remain in Trieste for the rest of his life.
 
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