When German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill arrived in the United States in 1935, he found a nation nothing like he imagined. This book tells the full story of Weill as outsider-turned-insider, showing how he was keenly attuned to the difficult relationship America had with her immigrants but was slower to grasp the subtleties of race relations.
When German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill arrived in the United States in 1935, he found a nation nothing like he imagined. This book tells the full story of Weill as outsider-turned-insider, showing how he was keenly attuned to the difficult relationship America had with her immigrants but was slower to grasp the subtleties of race relations.
Naomi Graber is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Georgia
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Weill's America, America's Weill Chapter 2: Shifting Paradigms: Experiments in German and U.S. Alchemy Chapter 3: For the People: Folk Music Chapter 4: Living History: American History and World War II Chapter 5: Alienation and Integration: Gender and Sexuality Chapter 6: Israel in Egypt: Race and Ethnicity Conclusion Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Weill's America, America's Weill Chapter 2: Shifting Paradigms: Experiments in German and U.S. Alchemy Chapter 3: For the People: Folk Music Chapter 4: Living History: American History and World War II Chapter 5: Alienation and Integration: Gender and Sexuality Chapter 6: Israel in Egypt: Race and Ethnicity Conclusion Index
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