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table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Note on Translation
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: 1870–1914
    1. 1. How Beethoven Came to Black America: German Musical Universalism and Black Education after the Civil War
    2. 2. African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to the Kaiserreich
    3. 3. The Sonic Color Line Belts the World: Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe
  5. Part II: 1918–1945
    1. 4. Blackness and Classical Music in the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign
    2. 5. Singing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe
    3. 6. “A Negro Who Sings German Lieder Jeopardizes German Culture”: Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism
  6. Part III: 1945–1961
    1. 7. “And I Thought They Were a Decadent Race”: Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life
    2. 8. Breaking with the Past: Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945
    3. 9. Singing in the Promised Land: Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic
    4. Conclusion
  7. Notes
  8. Bibliography
  9. Index

Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Kira Thurman

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

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