Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic

Contents

• 1. Stage and screen: Kurt Weill and operatic reform in the 1920s Bryan Gilliam;
• 2. Rethinking sound: music and radio in Weimar Germany Christopher Hailey;
• 3. 'Overcoming romanticism': on the modernisation of twentieth-century performance practice Robert Hill;
• 4. Lehrstuck: an aesthetics of performance Stephen Hinton;
• 5. Singing Brecht versus Brecht singing: performance in theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke;
• 6. German musicology and early music performance, 1918-1933 Pamela Potter;
• 7. Jazz reception in Weimar Germany: in search of a shimmy figure J. Bradford Robinson;
• 8. The idea of Bewegung in the German organ reform movement of the 1920s Peter Williams.