ISBN:
9781501759840
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 351 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thurman, Kira Singing like Germans
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thurman, Kira Singing like Germans
DDC:
306.4/8428
Keywords:
Musicians, Black History 20th century
;
Musicians, Black History 20th century
;
Musicians, Black History 19th century
;
Musicians, Black History 19th century
;
African American musicians History 20th century
;
African American musicians History 20th century
;
African American musicians History 19th century
;
African American musicians History 19th century
;
Music Social aspects
;
History
;
Music Social aspects
;
History
;
Music Political aspects
;
History
;
Music Political aspects
;
History
;
Music and race
;
Deutschland
;
Musiker
;
Amerika
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1870-1961
;
Deutschland
;
Österreich
;
Schwarze
;
Musiker
;
Geschichte 1870-1990
Abstract:
How Beethoven Came to Black America -- African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to Central Europe, 1870-1914 -- The Sonic Color Line Belts the World : Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe, 1870-1914 -- Blackness and Classical Music in the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign -- Singing Lieder, Hearing Race : Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe -- "A Negro Who Sings German Lieder Jeopardizes German Culture" : Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism -- "And I Thought They Were A Decadent Race" : Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life -- Breaking with the Past : Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945 -- Singing in the Promised Land : Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic -- Conclusion : "What Should a Negro Do with Beethoven?!".
Abstract:
"This book examines the history of Black musicians in Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
