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Author Thurman, Kira, author.

Title Singing like Germans : Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms / Kira Thurman.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How Beethoven Came to Black America -- African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to Central Europe, 1870-1914 -- The Sonic Color Line Belts the World : Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe, 1870-1914 -- Blackness and Classical Music in the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign -- Singing Lieder, Hearing Race : Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe -- "A Negro Who Sings German Lieder Jeopardizes German Culture" : Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism -- "And I Thought They Were A Decadent Race" : Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life -- Breaking with the Past : Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945 -- Singing in the Promised Land : Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic -- Conclusion : "What Should a Negro Do with Beethoven?!".
Summary "This book examines the history of Black musicians in Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Musicians, Black -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Musicians, Black.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Musicians, Black -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
Austria.
Musicians, Black -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Musicians, Black -- Austria -- History -- 19th century.
African American musicians -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
African American musicians.
African American musicians -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
African American musicians -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
African American musicians -- Austria -- History -- 19th century.
Music -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History.
Music -- Social aspects -- Austria -- History.
Music -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History.
Music -- Political aspects.
Music.
Music -- Political aspects -- Austria -- History.
Music and race.
Music and race.
Music -- Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Thurman, Kira. Singing like Germans Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501759840 (DLC) 2021012388
ISBN 9781501759857 electronic book
1501759868 electronic book
9781501759864 electronic book
150175985X electronic book
9781501759840 hardcover