Beschreibung
This history of Jewish musicians who migrated to Australia traces their difficult journey to a distant continent. Drawing on extensive primary sources – including correspondence, travel documents and interviews with the refugees themselves or their descendants – the author depicts in vivid detail the lives of nearly a hundred displaced musicians.
Rezension
Praise for the German edition:
«Dümling has traced a web of connections between yesterday’s Germany and today’s Australia, a history of disgrace, culpability, neglect, unlikely twists of fate and even the occasional happy end.» (Shirley Apthorp,
«Dümling is probably best known as the curator of
, an important exhibition about Nazi propaganda in music. In
his approach is like that of a curator who brings neglected historical exhibits to light.» (Glenn Nicholls,
«The liveliness Dümling manages to transmit in his stories [...] makes the book a compelling read.»(Andrea Bandhauer,
Inhalt
Contents: Australia: So Far, and Yet so Near – «Oh sacred Art»: On the Status of Music – Failed Integration: Getting out of Germany, 1933-1937 – On the Other Side of the World – Mixed Feelings: Australian Reactions to German Racial Politics – «Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus?»: Persecution and Flight – After Kristallnacht – The Refugee Problem from an Australian Perspective – Under Union Scrutiny: The Weintraubs Syncopators – «Down with the fifth column!»: Britain during the War – Interned and Defamed in Australia – «In corrugated iron huts»: Deported to Hay and Tatura – Snow White in Uniform: The Music Revue
– The Year 1945: Lost and Found – «The cultivated enthusiasm of a handful of missionaries»: The Genesis of Musica Viva Australia – Between Adjustment and Self-Assertion: Refugee Contributions to Australian Musical Life – «Land of Mine»: New Compositions for a New Australia – «Happily ever after»: Hidden Contributions to Cultural Diversity.
