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The Karl Muck scandal : classical music and xenophobia in World War I America /

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burrage, Melissa D., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Colección:Eastman studies in music.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Here on foreign shores: Dr. Karl Muck's acclaim in Boston (1906-1918)
  • Mobilization: a changing environment for Boston
  • Selling the war: demonizing the enemy
  • "Looking for the trump card": Mrs. William Jay's attacks on Karl Muck in wartime America (1915-1918)
  • "A leaf in the storm": Muck, Higginson, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1918-1919)
  • Muck's arrest: "finding 'one weak spot'" (1918-1919)
  • "Only too proud to shoulder it all": the sexual climate of wartime Boston and Muck's fall from grace (1918-1919)
  • Muck's final years: his association with the Wagners and Adolph Hitler (1920-1940).