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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thurman, Kira, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicians, Black--Germany--History.

Musicians, Black--Austria--History.

African American musicians--Germany--History.

African American musicians--Austria--History.

Music--Social aspects--Germany--History.

Music--Social aspects--Austria--History.

Music--Political aspects--Germany--History.

Music--Political aspects--Austria--History.

Music and race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

In 'Singing Like Germans', Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall.

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?!".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2022).

Previously issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

9781501770180

1501770187

9781501759857

150175985X

OCLC:

1245247194