The Karl Muck Scandal : Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burrage, Melissa D., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Muck, Karl.
Xenophobia.
Germans.
Conductors (Music)
HISTORY > Holocaust.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Band & Orchestra.
MUSIC > Musical Instruments > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Massachusetts > Boston.
Xenophobie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Chefs d'orchestre > Biographies.
Allemands > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire > 20e siecle.
World War, 1914-1918 > Massachusetts > Boston.
Xenophobia > United States > History > 20th century.
Conductors (Music) > Biography.
Germans > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 20th century.
United States.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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).

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