Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199367485 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly Recommended." --Choice. Winner of the 2015 Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society"Including fresh, original, well-written, and substantive research by scholars in music, history, and Jewish studies, this volume contributes to the attempted reconstruction of a transnational, multilingual, diverse cultured Jewish musical praxis of the German-Jewish encounter
In the context of these perspectives, the volume makes powerful arguments about the impact of the Holocaust and its aftermath in changing contexts of musical performance and composition. While these concepts link the multi-faceted essays on a micro-level, they are also largely connected in their conceptual query by focus, on the macro-level, on the presence and the absence of Jewish music in Germany after 1945. In doing so, the essays in Dislocated Memories cover a wide spectrum of topics from the immediate postwar period with music in the Displaced Persons camps to
Hirsch isan independent scholar. Dr. Frühauf is currently completing research for a monograph on music in the Jewish communities of Germany after 1945.Dr. She was previously Assistant Professor of Music at Cleveland State University. She is author of the