Bibliograph

Singing like Germans, Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, Kira Thurman

Type

Label

Singing like Germans, Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, Kira Thurman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Singing like Germans

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1228031724

Responsibility statement

Kira Thurman

Sub title

Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Summary

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

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?!"

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