Music in the Holocaust

Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927797-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

In Music in the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert provides the first large-scale, critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. She documents a wide scope of musical activities, ranging from orchestras and chamber groups to choirs, theatres, communal sing-songs, and cabarets, in some of the most important internment centres in Nazi-occupied Europe, including Auschwitz and the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos. Gilbert is also concerned with exploring the ways in which music - particularly the many songs that were preserved - contribute to our broader understanding of the Holocaust and the experiences of its victims. Music in the Holocaust is, at its core, a social history, taking as its focus the lives of individuals and communities imprisoned under Nazism. Music opens a unique window on to the internal world of those communities, offering insight into how they understood, interpreted, and responded to their experiences at the time.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Nazi Germany, the holocaust and Jewish Studies, cultural historians, musicologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, Shirli

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikveranstaltungen und -organisationen, Aufführungspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Redeeming Music: 'Spiritual resistance' and beyond

- 2: 'Have compassion, Jewish hearts': Music in the Warsaw Ghetto

- 3: Vilna: Politicians and Partisans

- 4: Songs Confront the Past: Life in the Sachsenhausen

- 5: Fragments of Humanity: Music in Auschwitz

- 6: Epilogue

- Appendices

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shirli Gilbert, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan