Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199367485 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Solie Award from the American Musicological SocietyThe first volume of its kind, Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust. Winner of the 2015 Ruth A. 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 the later twentieth century with compositions conceived in response to the Holocaust and the klezmer revival at the turn of this century.Dislocated Memories builds on a wide range of recent and critical scholarship in Cold War studies, cultural history, German
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. Highly Recommended." --Choice. Winner of the 2015 Ruth A
Hirsch isan independent scholar. Frühauf is currently completing research for a monograph on music in the Jewish communities of Germany after 1945.Dr. Dr. She is author of the booksA Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture LeagueMusic in American Crime Prevention and Punishment. She has received numerous fellowships and grants, most recently from the