Forbidden music
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With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany's historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment.
Title |
Forbidden music : the jewish composers banned by the nazis / Michael Haas. |
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Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher |
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press |
Creation Date |
c2013 |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. German and Jewish -- CHAPTER 2. Wagner and German Jewish Composers in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 3. An Age of Liberalism, Brahms and the Chronicler Hanslick -- CHAPTER 4.Mahler and His Chronicler Julius Korngold -- CHAPTER 5. The Jugendstil School of Schoenberg, Schreker, Zemlinsky and Weigl -- CHAPTER 6. A Musical Migration -- CHAPTER 7. Hey! We're Alive! -- CHAPTER 8. A Question of Musical Potency The Anti-Romantics -- CHAPTER 9 .The Resolute Romantics -- CHAPTER 10. Between Hell and Purgatory -- CHAPTER 11. Exile and Worse -- CHAPTER 12. Restitution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Extent |
1 online resource (371 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010708992605171 |
MARC RECORDS
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