Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States / edited by Reinhold Brinkmann and Christoph Wolff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Forced Migration of artists and scholars from Nazi German is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold - of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this collection, which approaches the subject from diverse perspectives, including documentary-style newspaper accounts and an exploration of Walt Whitman's poetry in the work of Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill."--Jacket.

Preface / Christoph Wolff -- Reading a letter / Reinhold Brinkmann -- "We miss our Jews" : the musical migration from Nazi Germany / Peter Gay -- My Vienna triangle at Washington Square revisited and dilated / Milton Babbitt -- Displaced musics and immigrant musicologists : ethnomusicological and biographical perspectives / Bruno Nettl -- Music and musicians in exile : the romantic legacy of a double life / Lydia Goehr -- The exile of European music : documentation of upheaval and immigration in the New York Times / David Josephson -- Composers in exile : the question of musical identity / Hermann Danuser -- Challenges and opportunities of acculturation : Schoenberg, Krenek, and Stravinsky in exile / Claudia Maurer Zenck -- Reading Whitman/responding to America : Hindemith, Weill, and others / Kim H. Kowalke -- A Viennese opera composer in Hollywood : Korngold's double exile in America / Bryan Gilliam -- Strangers in strangers' land : Werfel, Weill, and the Eternal road / Alexander L. Ringer -- Hindemith and Weill : cases of "inner" and "other" direction / Stephen Hinton -- Wolpe and Black Mountain college / Anne C. Shreffler -- From Jewish exile in Germany to German scholar in America : Alfred Einsteins's emigration / Pamela M. Potter -- Immigrant musicians and the American chamber music scene, 1930-1950 / Walter Levin -- Appendix : Musicologists who emigrated from Germany, Austria, and central Europe, ca. 1930-1945.

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