Singing Like Germans : : Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms / / Kira Thurman.
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 between people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 28 b&w halftones, 1 chart, 1 printed music item |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation
- Introduction
- Part I 1870–1914
- Chapter 1 How Beethoven Came to Black America
- Chapter 2 African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to the Kaiserreich
- Chapter 3 The Sonic Color Line Belts the World
- Part II 1918–1945
- Chapter 4 Blackness and Classical Music in the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign
- Chapter 5 Singing Lieder, Hearing Race
- Chapter 6 “A Negro Who Sings German Lieder Jeopardizes German Culture”
- Part III 1945–1961
- Chapter 7 “And I Thought They Were a Decadent Race”
- Chapter 8 Breaking with the Past
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index