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

"This book examines the history of Black musicians in Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thurman, Kira (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?!".