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Jonathan Rosenberg

Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War Through the Cold War

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Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of twentieth-century American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation's culture and politics. The work of renowned conductors, instrumentalists, and singers-and the activities of orchestras and opera companies-were intertwined with momentous international events, especially the two world wars and the long Cold War.Jonathan Rosenberg exposes the politics behind classical music, showing how German musicians were dismissed or imprisoned during World War I, while numerous German compositions were swept from American auditoriums. He writes of the accompanying… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-60842-7
  • EAN: 9780393608427
  • Produktnummer: 29900610
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 448 S.

Über den Autor


Jonathan Rosenberg, professor of twentieth-century US history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is author of Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War; How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam; and co-author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

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