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Author:

Thurman, Kira, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Musicians, Black--Germany--History--20th century.
Musicians, Black--Austria--History--20th century.
Musicians, Black--Germany--History--19th century.
Musicians, Black--Austria--History--19th century.
African American musicians--Germany--History--20th century.
African American musicians--Austria--History--20th century.
African American musicians--Germany--History--19th century.
African American musicians--Austria--History--19th century.
Music--History.--Germany--History.
Music--History.--Austria--History.
Music--History.--Germany--History.
Music--History.--Austria--History.
Music and race.
1800-1999

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?!".

Summary:

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

ISBN:

1501759841
9781501759840

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1228031724

LCCN:

2021012388

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)