The impact of Nazism on twentieth-century music / edited by Erik Levi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levi, Erik.

University of London. Senate House Library.

Series:

Exil.arte-Schriften ; Bd. 3.

Exil.arte-Schriften ; Bd. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism and music--Europe--Congresses.

National socialism and music.

National socialism and music--Congresses.

Music--Europe--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Music.

Music--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Expatriate composers--Congresses.

Expatriate composers.

Jewish composers--Europe--Congresses.

Jewish composers.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

354 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wien : Böhlau, 2014.

Summary:

The impact of Nazism on twentieth-century music was immense as evidenced by this volume featuring seventeen essays by a group of internationally recognised scholars. The range of enquiry is extraordinarily wide, covering the issue of "Inner Emigration" during the Third Reich and remigration in the Netherlands after the Second World War, as well as the work of exiled composers such as Korngold, Weill, Weigl, Ullmann, Eisler, Achron, Goldschmidt and Gal. In addition, there are penetrating discussions of the employment of Handel's music in the Jewish Cultural League, Nazi musical censorship in occupied Poland and the fate of emigre musicians and musicologists in wartime Britain. Three chapters detail the musical relationship between Franco's Spain and the Third Reich.

Contents:

Introduction / Erik Levi

What is internal exile in music? The cases of Walter Braunfels, Heinz Tiessen, Eduard Erdmann and Philipp Jarnach / Albrecht Diimling

Defining 'Jewish Music' in Nazi Germany : Handel and the Berlin Jewish Culture League / Lily E. Hirsch

'Olden Melodies Return' : Memory in Joseph Achron's Hebrew Melody / Joshua S. Walden

Swearing an Oath : Korngold, film and the sound of resistance? / Ben Winters

From Surabaya to Ellis Island : On two versions of Kurt Weill's 'Surabaya-Johnny' / Magnar Breivik

Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch and 'the new stuff of life' / James Parsons

Karl Weigl's Final Years, 1938-1949 : a story of perseverance / Juliane Brand

The transformation of Viktor Ullmann's compositional language / Kristof Boucquet

Nazi censorship in Music, Warsaw 1941 / Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek

Paul Hirsch and Alfred Einstein : the trials and tribulations of artistic collaboration in exile / Erik Levi and Melina Gehring

The Abyss and the Berries / Suzanne Snizek

Music as Memory : Emigre composers in Britain and their wartime experiences / Malcolm Miller

'Problematic Tendencies' : Emigre Composers in London, 1933-1945 / Florian Scheding

Nazism, Anti-Semitism in the Second Republic Spain (1931-1936) / Francisco Parralejo Masa

The Musical Policies of the Third Reich in relation to the first years of Francoism (1938-1943) / Gemma Perez Zalduondo

Hispanic-German music festivals during the Second World War / Eva Moreda-Rodriguez

'Some of the Jewish musicians are back at their desks' : a case study in the remigration of European musicians after World War II / Emile Wennekes

The contributors

Index.

Notes:

Proceedings of an International conference which took place at Senate House, University of London, in April 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783205795438

3205795431

OCLC:

871295665

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