Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos

Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (Oxford Historical Monographs)

In Music in the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert provides the first large-scale, critical account in English 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.
Country USA
Brand Oxford University Press
Manufacturer Oxford University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber numerous musical examples and halftones
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780199211180
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	numerous musical examples and halftones
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780199211180
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (Oxford Historical Monographs)