Kurt Weill's America
Author | : Naomi Graber |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190906580 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190906588 |
Rating | : 4/5 (588 Downloads) |
Download or read book Kurt Weill's America written by Naomi Graber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill arrived in the United States in 1935, he found a nation nothing like he imagined. This book tells the full story of Weill as outsider-turned-insider, showing how he was keenly attuned to the difficult relationship America had with her immigrants but was slower to grasp the subtleties of race relations.