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Singing like Germans : Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Christian Thorau; Hansjakob Ziemer; Christina Bashford; Mark Evan Bonds; James Deaville; Katharine Ellis; Wolfgang Fuhrmann; Wolfgang Gratzer; Neil Gregor; Alexandra Hui; James H. Johnson; Anselma Lanzendrfer; Fred Maus; Charles Edward McGuire; Daniel Morat; Gesa zur Nieden; Sonja Neumann; Christiane Tewinkel; Viktoria Tkaczyk; Axel Volmar; William Weber; Stefan Weinzierl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Singing like Germans : Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms about?
In Singing Like Germans , Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicians complicated the public's understanding of who had the right to play them. Audiences wavered between seeing these musicians as the rightful heirs of Austro-German musical culture and dangerous outsiders to it. Thurman explores
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- Author
- Christian Thorau; Hansjakob Ziemer; Christina Bashford; Mark Evan Bonds; James Deaville; Katharine Ellis; Wolfgang Fuhrmann; Wolfgang Gratzer; Neil Gregor; Alexandra Hui; James H. Johnson; Anselma Lanzendrfer; Fred Maus; Charles Edward McGuire; Daniel Morat; Gesa zur Nieden; Sonja Neumann; Christiane Tewinkel; Viktoria Tkaczyk; Axel Volmar; William Weber; Stefan Weinzierl
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199796021
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.53 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14