MUSIC, MIGRATION & MOBILITY
The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain
Publications and links
ONLINE RESOURCE
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Substantial digital resources developed by the Music, Migration and Mobility project are now available through the website of the Royal College of Music.
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You can read biographies and detailed stories about individual musicians, watch oral history interviews, browse a large collection of story maps and download free sheet music as well as repertoire guides.
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Please click here to visit the resource. ​​​
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JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOKS
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Find links to some of the project's peer-reviewed publications here:
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Meyn Norbert, Adey Peter, Grosch Nils. (2023). Foregrounding Mobility Rather than Belonging: A Conceptual Framework for Engaging with Music Shaped by Transnational Migration. ACTA MUSICOLOGICA, 95 (1), pp. 4-20
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Snyder B, (2023). “An Impulse to Transfigure and Render New”—The Anglo-Austrian Music Society in Wartime and Early Post-War Britain. Music & Politics
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Whitfield S, (2024). Understanding the history of 1930s musical migrants to Britain through minimal computing-led digital humanities. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle
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Holden, M., Adey, P., Snyder, B., Meyn, N., & Grosch, N. (2024). Mapping Musical Mobilities: Challenging Musical Nationalism Through Mobility and Migration. GeoHumanities
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Meyn, N, (2021). ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’: an ongoing research project at the Royal College of Music. Music & Practice
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Forthcoming:
Book: Grosch, N and Snyder, B. (Editors) The Glyndebourne Émigrés: Operatic Mobilities in Southern England, 1934-1940
Clemson University Press
Links to related organisations and resources
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Forschungsinitiative Musik und Migration Salzburg
LexM Hamburg University - Online encyclopaedia about musicians persecuted by the Nazi Regime
Forbidden Music Regained, Leo Smit Foundation Amsterdam
Festival Verfemte Musik Schwerin
online resource from the AHRC funded project 'Performing the Jewish Canon'
International Centre for Suppressed Music
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