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Singing in the age of anxiety : lieder performances in New York and London between the World Wars / Laura Tunbridge.
LIBRA ML2811.8.N48 T76 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tunbridge, Laura, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Performance.
- History.
- Songs, German.
- Social aspects.
- Singing.
- England--London.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Singing--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Singing--England--London--History--20th century.
- Songs, German--Social aspects.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Performance--History--20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder - German art songs- was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and media - at luxury hotels and on ocean liners, in vaudeville productions and at Carnegie Hall, and on gramophone recordings, radio broadcasts, and films. 0Laura Tunbridge explores the renewed vitality of this refugee musical form between the world wars, offering a fresh perspective on a period that was pervaded by anxieties of displacement. Through richly varied case studies, Singing in the Age of Anxiety traces how lieder were circulated, presented, and consumed in metropolitan contexts, shedding new light on how music facilitated unlikely crossings of nationalist and internationalist ideologies during the interwar period.
- Contents:
- Introduction an anxious age
- Transatlantic arrivals
- Languages of listening
- Lieder society
- Saving music.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226563572
- 022656357X
- OCLC:
- 1004256832
- Publisher Number:
- 40028319635
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