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Title: Music of Exile
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler
Author: Michael Haas
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0300266502
EAN: 9780300266504
ISBN: 9780300266504
Publisher: Yale University Press
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, History
Release Date: 10/10/2023
Description: What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
 
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile—composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos.
 
Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of this musical diaspora. Torn between cultures and traditions, these composers produced music that synthesized old and new worlds, some becoming core portions of today’s repertoire, some relegated to the desk drawer. Encompassing the musicians interned as enemy aliens in the United Kingdom, the brilliant Hollywood compositions of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the Brecht-inspired theater music of Kurt Weill, Haas shows how these musicians shaped the twentieth-century soundscape—and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Release Year: 2023

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