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Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis by [Haas, Michael]

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With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation.

Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment.

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File Size: 1480 KB
Print Length: 371 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (April 15, 2013)
Publication Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300154313
ISBN-13: 978-0300154313
ASIN: B00CE7NZBI
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Very valuable to music and/or history lovers

December 17, 2015

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

I'm always on the lookout for music I haven't discovered yet, and FORBIDDEN MUSIC certainly provided that in spades. I don't really have an affinity for Jewish composers or music in particular, but I am drawn to the rare. The book is mostly about the composers that were directly affected by the Nazi regime, although there is a few preceding chapters of historical context which explains how the situation came about. Anti-Semitism in Germany (and Europe, in general) has always existed in some form or another, but the perfect storm of Wagner and German nationalism led to some of the most tragic events in world history. The book is super-thorough and detailed, with plenty of primary source excerpts that explicate more than could ever be expressed through mere analysis (although there is plenty of that, to be sure). For me, the most interesting chapters were the previously mentioned first few chapters, which begin with Europe post-Vienna Congress and lead up to the first couple decades of the twentieth century. Once the book reaches the point at which composers started jumping ship and/or being imprisoned, it became a little more rote in terms of narrative. If there's anything to be learned from this, aside from discovering under-appreciated music, it's that history has an uncanny way of repeating itself. The passages which describe the racism and bigotry of certain individuals and segments of the population, and the impossibly difficult situations that Jewish refugees were put in, reminded me a lot of current world events. Hopefully, humanity has learned from the past so that we won't let the atrocities visited upon the Jews (and other ethnic/social groups) happen again to others. My only real complaint about the book (which isn't really a complain, per se) is that there was only a few lines in the book devoted to Erwin Schulhoff, the primary reason I bought it in the first place. Other than that, I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves history and/or music.

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L. LevyTop Contributor: Guitars

A Text About Forbidden Composers

September 16, 2016

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

Mr. Haas's writing style is to quote from contemporary people alive when the composers covered lived. It's quite a bit more like a text than I wanted or expected. However, once I realized what the book actually is, and no longer expected a different style, It was quite well written.

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Michael Shapiro

Let Us Remember and Never Forget

August 25, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Michael Haas has written a brilliant and moving book about the composers who were affected - some murdered, others exiled - by the Shoah. There's no book like this, written by someone who knows the music deeply and cares completely about making it resound. A brilliant tour de force! Thank you, Michael.

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I'm a repeat buyer of this book - need I say more?!

July 28, 2015

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

This is the Xth time I've purchased this outstanding and authoritative book as a gift to various colleagues in the classical music profession, as well as non-musician friends who also find the book most informative.

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Authoritative but disappointing

August 9, 2013

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

This volume covers a period in 20th century music that represents the triumph of barbarism. Haas, who produced the great "Degenerate Music" CD series for Decca 20 years ago, is impeccable on the history and biography of these uprooted and doomed artists. However, I was hoping for more details on the music itself. That, after all, is where our interest should ultimately lie. Perhaps, a second volume is in order.

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S. Mitchell Freedman

An extraordinary book

August 24, 2013

Format: Hardcover

This remarkable book is a "must-read" not only for classical music lovers but for anyone interested in trying to understand how the unspeakable horrors of the first and second world wars happened. His musicological knowledge has brought me great new insights into music I have known and loved but he has also opened my eyes and ears to an enormous amount of music I never knew existed. He reviews the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries in its descent into hell from the perspective of music. A stellar achievement. The book is eminently readable and hard to put down.

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September 29, 2014

Format: Hardcover

It truly informed you about scope of the intellectual abyss the the Nazi s created even before the killing

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June 27, 2015

Format: Paperback

Seriously, his book is a joke

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