Music in the Holocaust : Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps Paperback / softback
by Shirli (Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan) Gilbert
Part of the Oxford Historical Monographs series
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In Music in the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert provides the first large-scale, critical account 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, communal sing-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 broader understanding 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, offering insight into how they understood, interpreted, and responded to their experiences at the time.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:262 pages, numerous musical examples and halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780199211180
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:262 pages, numerous musical examples and halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780199211180