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The Karl Muck Scandal - Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (Hardcover)
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The Karl Muck Scandal - Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston
Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and
placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the
United States. BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC BOOK RELEASE OF 2019 by
Classical-music.com, the official website of BBC Music Magazine.
2019 SUMMER READS ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC by the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation. 2019 BEST BOOK AWARD FINALIST in both the
History and Performing Arts categories, sponsored by American Book
Fest. 2019 SUBVENTION AWARD by the American Musicological Society,
funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. One of the cherished narratives of
American history is that of the Statue of Liberty welcoming
immigrants to its shores. Accounts of the exclusion and
exploitation of Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth century
and Japanese internment during World War II tell a darker story of
American immigration. Less well-known, however, is the treatment of
German-Americans and Germannationals in the United States during
World War I. Initially accepted and even welcomed into American
society at the outbreak of war, this group would face rampant
intolerance and anti-German hysteria. Melissa D. Burrage's book
illustrates this dramatic shift in attitude in her engrossing
narrative of Dr. Karl Muck, the celebrated German conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was targeted and ultimately
disgraced by a New York Philharmonic board member and by
capitalists from that city who used his private sexual life as a
basis for having him arrested, interned, and deported from the
United States. While the campaign against Muck made national
headlines, and is the main focus of this book, Burrage also
illuminates broader national topics such as: Total War; State
power; vigilante justice; internment and deportation; irresponsible
journalism; sexual surveillance; attitudes toward immigration;
anti-Semitism; and the development of America's musical
institutions. The mistreatment of Karl Muck in the United States
provides a narrative thread that connects these various wartime and
postwar themes. MELISSAD. BURRAGE, a former writing consultant at
Harvard University Extension School, holds a Master's Degree in
History from Harvard University and a PhD in American Studies from
University of East Anglia. Support for thispublication was provided
by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman
School of Music at the University of Rochester.
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