Examine the historical impact, artistic contributions, and historiographical treatment of European composers forced into exile during the Nazi regime.
Historical and musicological analysis of twentieth-century émigré composers who fled Nazi Germany.
Critical re-evaluation of dominant historiographical narratives centered narrowly on the modernist avant-garde.
Demonstrates how geographical displacement challenged monolithic narratives of modernist musical progress.
Broadens the historical understanding of twentieth-century music by contextualizing the diverse aesthetic contributions of exiled composers.
Abstract
The decline of monolithic narratives of musical progress focused on the achievements of a narrowly defined modernist avant-garde surely stands as one of the more consequential developments in recen...