Music in the Holocaust

副标题: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps

ISBN: 9780199277971

出版社: Oxford University Press

出版年: 2005-6-2

页数: 256

定价: USD 96.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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, communalsing-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 broaderunderstanding 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, offeringinsight into how they understood, interpreted, and responded to their experiences at the time.

作者简介

Shirli Gilbert is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

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