Anneliese Landau's Life in Music Nazi Germany to Émigré California /

Anneliese Landau's Life in Music Nazi Germany to Émigré California /

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This book introduces readers to a woman who truly persisted. Anneliese Landau pushed past bias to earn a PhD in musicology in 1930. She then lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hirsch, Lily E., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 152.
Subjects:
National socialism and music.
Musicologists > Biography.
Jewish women > Germany > Biography.
Jewish women > California > Biography.
Jews, German > California > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: the black thread. Part 1 : Standing up
  • Loss and gain
  • Her Berlin
  • On the air. Part 2 : An end and a beginning
  • The Jewish culture league
  • Jewish music in Nazi Germany
  • Kristallnacht
  • Kindertransport. Part 3 : Leaving again
  • Judaism in music revisited
  • Forbidden music
  • The pull west. Part 4 : The Jewish community center
  • International composers
  • Making music after war
  • A Cold War in the sun
  • Spotlighting composers
  • Back to Europe
  • Going places. Part 5 : valley of the dismissed?
  • At her desk
  • In memoriam. Conclusion: "I was there." Notes
  • Index.

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