"This book examines the history of Black musicians in Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Part I: 1870-1914
1. How Beethoven Came to Black America: German Musical Universalism and Black Education after the Civil War
2. African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to the Kaiserreich
3. The Sonic Color Line Belts the World: Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe
Part II: 1918-1945
4. Blackness and Classical Musicin the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign
5. Singing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe
6. "A Negro Who Sings German Music Jeopardizes German Culture": Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism
Part III: 1945-1961
7. "And I thought they were a decadent race": Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life
8. Breaking with the Past: Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945
9. Singing in the Promised Land: Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic
Conclusion
