Artists in exile : how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts
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New York : Harper, c2008.
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Special Coll. 791.086 H8167a
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Published
New York : Harper, c2008.
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Book
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xix, 458 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-440) and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Horowitz, J. (2008). Artists in exile: how refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts . Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-. 2008. Artists in Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts. Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-. Artists in Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts Harper, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Horowitz, Joseph. Artists in Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts Harper, 2008.
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