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Dislocated memories : Jews, music, and postwar German culture /

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This title draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust. Jewish music - a highly debated topic - encompasses a multiplicity of musics and cultures, reflecting an inherent and evolving hybridity and transnationalism. German culture r...

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Other Authors: Frühauf, Tina (Editor), Hirsch, Lily E., 1979- (Editor), Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- (writer of afterword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Jews > Germany > Music > History and criticism.
Music > Germany > 20th century > History and criticism.
National socialism and music.
Nazisme et musique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Jews > Music
Music
National socialism and music
Germany
Juden
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Musik
Deutschland
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I : Perceptions of represence. A historiography of postwar writings on Jewish music during the 1930s and 1940s / Tina Frühauf
  • "With an open mind and with respect" : Klezmer as a site of the Jewish fringe in Germany in the early twenty-first century / Joel E. Rubin
  • Musical memories of Terezín in transnational perspective / Amy Lynn Wlodarski.
  • Part II : Dislocated presence. "Vu ahin zol ikh gehn?" : Music culture of Jewish displaced persons / Bret Werb
  • The Katset-Teater and the development of Yiddish theater in the DP Camp Bergen-Belsen / Sophie Fetthauer ; translated by Lily E. Hirsch
  • "Driven from their home" : Jewish displacement and musical memory in the 1948 movie Long is the road / Joshua S. Walden.
  • Part III : Politics of memory. Remembering the concentration camps : Aleksander Kulisiewicz and his concerts of prisoners' songs in the Federal Republic of Germany / Barbara Milewski
  • Eberhard Rebling, Lin Jaldati, and Yiddish music in East Germany, 1949-1962 / David Shneer
  • Jewishness and Antifascism : Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in East Germany, 1958 / Joy H. Calico.
  • Part IV : Modes of commemoration. Where is the Holocaust in all this? : György Ligeti and the dialectics of life and work / Florian Scheding
  • Represence of Jewishness in German music commemorating the Holocaust since the 1980s : three case studies / Sabine Feisst
  • Germany's commemoration of the Jüdischer Kulturbund / Lily E. Hirsch
  • Afterword / Philip V. Bohlman.