Forbidden music : the Jewish composers banned by the Nazis / Michael Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haas, Michael, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish composers--Germany--Biography.

Jewish composers.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jews--Germany--Music.

Jews.

Germany.

Genre:

Music.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 358 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Summary:

By 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector which made music the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight to delimit and control Germany's historic traditions, cultural ideals and national identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich, from their contribution in Germany and Austria before National Socialism, to their precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration and ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge (such as Britain and the United States), and the consequences for music worldwide. Book jacket.

Contents:

German and Jewish

Wagner and German Jewish composers in the nineteenth century

An age of liberalism, Brahms, and the chronicler, Hanslick

Mahler and his chronicler, Korngold

The Jugendstil School of Schoenberg, Schrecker, Zemlinsky, and Weigl

A musical migration

Hey! We're alive!

A question of musical potency : the Anti-romantics

The resolute Romantics

Between Hell and Purgatory

Exile and worse

Restitution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-334) and index.

ISBN:

9780300154306

0300154305

OCLC:

813392739