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

Thurman, Kira. Book - 2021 306.484 Th, Black Studies 306.484 Th 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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

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