Belgravia
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 572
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Music of Exile
Author: Michael Haas
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0300274602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile—composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos. Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of this musical diaspora. Torn between cultures and traditions, these composers produced music that synthesized old and new worlds, some becoming core portions of today’s repertoire, some relegated to the desk drawer. Encompassing the musicians interned as enemy aliens in the United Kingdom, the brilliant Hollywood compositions of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the Brecht-inspired theater music of Kurt Weill, Haas shows how these musicians shaped the twentieth-century soundscape—and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.
Just My Soul Responding
Author: Brian Ward
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 1135370044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.
Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon
Author: Belgravia
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 590
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Music Libel Against the Jews
Author: Ruth HaCohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 0300177992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.
German and Song 1740 - 1900
Author: John Smeed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000768589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1987, this volume charts the development of German song across a century and a half, relating it both to poetry and to the cultural scene in Germany. By emphasising genre rather than individual composers and while paying heed to acknowledged masterpieces – by quoting extensively from forgotten composers, the book avoids historical over simplification and arrives at a fuller picture of this rich tradition. In so doing, it uncovers much neglected material. The book investigates the relationship between German poets and composers and their native folk tradition. It further explores the interaction between convention and innovation and demonstrates how one poem can be interpreted quite differently by different composers. The book is accessible both to students of literature and music.
Censoring Sex
Author: John E. Semonche
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780742551329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up until the present. He covers the various forms of American media--books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. In each of the areas, Semonche explains via abundant examples how and why censorship took place. He also details how the cultural territory contested by those advocating and opposing censorship diminished over the course of the last two centuries.
Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism
Author: Kenneth H. Marcus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1107064996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKenneth H. Marcus shows how Schoenberg played a vital role in Southern California Modernism through his pedagogy, compositions, and texts.
Songs of Sonderling
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
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Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781682830796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling?s unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator, an artistic soul. From his early career at the Hamburg Temple and German Army service in World War I, to his wandering years in the Eastern United States and founding of the Society for Jewish Culture?Fairfax Temple in Los Angeles, Sonderling cultivated a unique aesthetic vision of Judaism, a ?five-sense appeal.? Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest document and analyze Sonderling?s experience and expression of Judaism through music. Rabbi Sonderling?s vision yielded liturgical commissions from exiled Viennese Jewish composers who arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these musical settings, activities at the Fairfax Temple, and involvement with the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College?Jewish Institute of Religion, Sonderling made an indelible mark on the city?s Jewish community and the wider musical world. Songs of Sonderling focuses on the commissions Sonderling made from 1938 to 1945: Ernst Toch?s Cantata of the Bitter Herbs, Arnold Schoenberg?s Kol Nidre, Erich Wolfgang Korngold?s A Passover Psalm and Prayer, and Eric Zeisl?s Requiem Ebraico. Through musical analyses and an examination of Sonderling?s career in Los Angeles, Friedmann and Guest contribute to the study of Jewish liturgical music, to Jewish history in the American West, to Jewish identity in the twentieth century, and to Jewish diaspora writ large.
