The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945 : Propaganda, Myth and Reality / Edited by David Fanning and Erik Levi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levi, Erik.

Fanning, David (David J.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (691 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these nations and force them to submit to the strictures of Nazi ideology. This pioneering collection of essays is the first in the English language to look in more detail at the musical consequences of German occupation during a dark period in European history. It embraces a wide range of issues, presenting case studies involving musical activity in a number of occupied European cities, as well as in countries that were part of the Axis or had established close diplomatic relations with Germany. The wartime careers and creative outputs of individual musicians who were faced with the dilemma of either complying with or resisting the impositions of the occupiers are explored. In addition, there is some reflection on the post-war implications of German occupation for the musical environment in Europe. Music under German Occupation is written for all music-lovers, students, professionals and academics who have particular interests in 20th-century music and/or the vicissitudes of European cultural life during World War II."--Publisher's site

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these nations andforce them to submit tothe strictures of Nazi ideology. This pioneering collection of essays is the first in the English language to look in more detail at the musical consequences of German occupation during a dark period in European history. It embraces a wide range of issues, presenting case studies involving musical activity in a number of occupied European cities, as well as in countries that were part of the Axis or had established close diplomatic relations with Germany. The wartime careers and creative outputs of individual musicians who were faced with the dilemma of eithercomplying with or resisting the impositions of the occupiers are explored. In addition, there is some reflection on the post-war implications of German occupationfor the musical environment in Europe. Music under German Occupation is written for allmusic-lovers, students, professionals and academics who haveparticular interests in 20th-century music and/or the vicissitudes of European cultural life during World War II.

Contents:

1. Composers as critics in occupied Paris / Nigel Simeone.

2. The Conservatoire in occupied Kiev (19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943) / Elena Zinkevych, translated by Michelle Assay.

3. Nazi musical imperialism in occupied Poland / Katarzyna Naliwajek.

4. Music and musical life in occupied Athens / Alexandros Charkiolakis.

5. The Rome-Berlin Axis: musical interactions between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in redrawing a New Order for European Culture / Erik Levi.

6. In search of a musical identity in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands / Dario van Gammeren.

7. Symphonic music in occupied Belgium (1940-1944) : the role of German-friendly music societies / Eric Derom.

8. Music, culture and the Church in the German-occupied USSR : the Smolensk area and other provinces / Svetlana Zvereva.

9. Celebrating a Mozart anniversary in occupied Belgium : the Mozart Herdenking in Vlaanderen (1942) / Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis and Cécile Quesney.

10. The ambiguous reception of Antonin Dvorak's music during the Reichsprotektorat Bohmen und Mahren (The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), 1939-1945 / Katerina Nová, translated by Stepán Kana.

11. Celebrating the Nordic tone

fighting for national legacy : the Grieg Centenary, 1943 / Michael Custodis and Arnulf Mattes.

12. The song collector, the year of terrors and the catastrophe that followed : a life in occupied Latvia / Kevin C. Karnes.

13. The music of Ciurlionis in the context of resistance and Lithuanian national identity during the Nazi occupation (1941-1944) / Vytaute Markeliuniene.

14. Power through music : strategies of the German occupation authorities in Estonia / Kristel Pappel and Anu Kolar.

15. Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism : the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943 / Michael Fjeldsoe.

16. Music criticism in the Swedish Nazi daily press : the case of Dagsposten / Henrik Rosengren.

17. (Re)visiting the (Jewish) archive of Gideon Klein

Terezin, 1941-1944 / David Fligg.

18. Eugeniusz Morawski : life under the Nazi occupation of Warsaw / Oskar Lapeta.

19. Religious patriotism and grotesque ridicule : responses to Nazi oppression in Pavel Haas's unfinished war-time Symphony / Martin Curda.

20. Paul von Klenau's Ninth Symphony : a case study / Niels Krabbe.

21. Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony : music of endurance / David Fanning and Michelle Assay.

22. Listening in the Grey Zone / Michael Beckerman.

23. The marketing of backstories : approaches to the legacies of music composed in fraught circumstances / Mirjam Frank.

24. Nazism, music and Tyrolean identity / Kurt Drexel.

25. Bartok against the Nazis : the Italian premieres of Bluebeard's Castle (1938) and The Miraculous / Nicolò Palazzetti.

26. Contemporary music and cultural politics in Switzerland during World War II : between neutrality and nationalism / Simeon Thompson

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CONTENTS

List of figures

List of tables

List of appendices

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Introduction: the foundations of Nazi musical imperialism

SECTION 1 Musical life, resistance and destruction in occupied European capitals

1 Composers as critics in occupied Paris

2 The Conservatoire in occupied Kiev (19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943)

3 Nazi musical imperialism in occupied Poland

4 Music and musical life in occupied Athens

SECTION 2 Adaptation and opportunism

5 The Rome-Berlin Axis: musical interactions between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in redrawing a 'New Order for European Culture'

6 In search of a musical identity in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands

7 Symphonic music in occupied Belgium (1940-1944): the role of 'German-friendly' music societies

8 Music, culture and the Church in the German-occupied USSR: the Smolensk area and other provinces

SECTION 3 Appropriations and reputations

9 Celebrating a Mozart anniversary in occupied Belgium: the Mozart Herdenking in Vlaanderen (1942)

10 The ambiguous reception of Antonín Dvořák's music during the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), 1939-1945

11 Celebrating the Nordic tone - fighting for national legacy: the Grieg Centenary, 1943

SECTION 4 Between two evils

12 The song collector, the year of terrors and the catastrophe that followed: a life in occupied Latvia

13 The music of Čiurlionis in the context of resistance and Lithuanian national identity during the Nazi occupation (1941-1944)

14 Power through music: strategies of the German occupation authorities in Estonia

SECTION 5 The limits of tolerance

15 Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism: the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943.

16 Music criticism in the Swedish Nazi daily press: the case of Dagsposten

SECTION 6 Damaged careers

17 (Re)visiting the (Jewish) archive of Gideon Klein - Terezín, 1941-1944

18 Eugeniusz Morawski: life under the Nazi occupation of Warsaw

SECTION 7 Symphonies of war and resistance

19 Religious patriotism and grotesque ridicule: responses to Nazi oppression in Pavel Haas's unfinished war-time Symphony

20 Paul von Klenau's Ninth Symphony: a case study

21 Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony: music of endurance

SECTION 8 Complex and uneasy legacies

22 Listening in the Grey Zone

23 The marketing of backstories: approaches to the legacies of music composed in fraught circumstances

24 Nazism, music and Tyrolean identity

25 Bartók against the Nazis: the Italian premieres of Bluebeard's Castle (1938) and The Miraculous Mandarin (1942)

26 Contemporary music and cultural politics in Switzerland during World War II: between neutrality and nationalism

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-86258-8

1-315-23061-5

9781315230610

OCLC:

1129998238