Music in the Holocaust Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps

Name: Music in the Holocaust Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
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ISBN: 9780199211180

ISBN-10: 0199211183

ISBN-13: 9780199211180

Edition: 2006

Authors: Shirli Gilbert

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In Music in the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert provides the first large-scale, critical account in English 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…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902



List of Illustrations


List of Music Examples


Note on the Music Examples


Abbreviations


Introduction: Redeeming Music-'Spiritual Resistance' and Beyond



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



Vilna: Politicians and Partisans



Songs Confront the Past: Life in Sachsenhausen



Fragments of Humanity: Music in Auschwitz


Epilogue



Repertoire Listings


Glossary


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Index