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Singing Like Germans : Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Ithaca : Cornell University Press [2021], 2021

1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)

Englisch

978-1-5017-5985-7 (electronic bk.)

978-1-5017-5986-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Musicians, Black-Germany-History-20th century ; Musicians, Black-Austria-History-20th century ; Musicians, Black-Germany-History-19th century

Singing Like Germans -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Introduction -- Part I: 1870-1914 -- 1. How Beethoven Came to Black America: German Musical Universalism and Black Education after the Civil War -- 2. African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to the Kaiserreich -- 3. The Sonic Color Line Belts the World: Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe -- Part II: 1918-1945 -- 4. Blackness and Classical Music in the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign -- 5. Singing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe -- 6. "A Negro Who Sings German Lieder Jeopardizes German Culture": Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism -- Part III: 1945-1961 -- 7. "And I Thought They Were a Decadent Race": Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life -- 8. Breaking with the Past: Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945 -- 9. Singing in the Promised Land: Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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An interdisciplinary and transatlantic history, Singing Like Germans suggests that listening to music is not a passive experience, but an active process where racial and gendered categories are constantly made and unmade