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The sound of exile : European Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947 / Tang Yating.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML336.8.S55 T362 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tang, Yating, author.
- Series:
- Modern Jewish history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--China--Shanghai--Music--History and criticism.
- Jews.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai--History.
- Jewish refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--China--Shanghai.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Jewish musicians--China--Shanghai.
- Jewish musicians.
- Jews--China--Shanghai--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In this book Tang Yating explores the world of Jewish music-making in Shanghai, focusing on the period between 1938 and 1947. Combining diaspora studies and ethnomusicology, he examines how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- A significant portion of this book is translated (with revisions and additional text) from Musical Life of Shanghai Jewish Communities: 1850-1950, 1998-2005 (Chinese edition, Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press, 2007).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Yating, Tang. Sound of exile
- ISBN:
- 9780815638551
- 0815638558
- OCLC:
- 1463663908
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