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020    9780060748463 |qhardcover
020    006074846X |qhardcover
020    9780060748500 |qpaperback
020    0060748508 |qpaperback
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050 00 PN2266.3 |b.H67 2008
100 1  Horowitz, Joseph, |d1948-
245 10 Artists in exile : |bhow refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts / |cJoseph Horowitz.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bHarperCollins Publishers, |c[2008]
264  4  |c©2008
300    xix, 458 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-440) and index.
505 0  Introduction: Cultural exchange -- How to become an American : a fortuitous partnership of dance and music -- The German colonization of American classical music -- The musical "margin of the unGerman" -- "In Hollywood we speak German" -- Delayed reaction : Stanislavsky, total theater, and Broadway.
520    George Balanchine, in collaboration with Stravinsky, famously created an Americanized version of Russian classical ballet. Kurt Weill, schooled in Berlin jazz, composed a Broadway opera. Rouben Mamoulian's revolutionary Broadway productions of Porgy and Bess and Oklahoma! drew upon Russian "total theater." An army of German filmmakers--among them F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder--made Hollywood more edgy and cosmopolitan. Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich redefined film sexuality. Erich Korngold upholstered the sound of the movies. Rudolf Serkin inspirationally inculcated dour Germanic canons of musical interpretation. An obscure British organist reinvented himself as "Leopold Stokowski." However, most of these gifted émigrés to the New World found that the freedoms they enjoyed in America diluted rather than amplified their high creative ambitions. Russians uprooted from St. Petersburg became "Americans"--they adapted. Representatives of Germanic culture, by comparison, preached a German cultural bible--they colonized.--From publisher description.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Performing arts |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Europeans |zUnited States.
650  0 Refugees |zUnited States.
852 0   |bscstacks |hPN2266.3 |i.H67 2008