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Double Stopping
How Migration Shaped the Careers of Australiaās Celebrity Violinists
- 297 pages
- English
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eBook - PDF
Double Stopping
How Migration Shaped the Careers of Australiaās Celebrity Violinists
About this book
Double Stopping traces the migration of celebrity violinists to and from Australia to investigate routes of contact between metropoles and peripheries, and the impact of world wars and political instability on patterns of musical migration.
Mobility and migration were integral to the careers of twentieth-century concert artists. Double Stopping explores how the increasing speed of travel and communication, the development of new media and the rise of celebrity culture enabled outstanding musicians to construct a global career.
Documenting movement through and between Belgium, Britain, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia and emerging hubs in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, this book explores aspects of musical migrant culture including the influence of teachers who were themselves migrants, the role of arts organizations in promoting (or hampering) the careers of immigrant musicians, the impact of the explicitly racist 'White Australia' policy on immigrant artists whose mission was to propagate whiteness and cultural elitism, the obstacles faced by women as aspiring soloists as well as immigrants, and the ways that migration re-oriented or re-shaped career trajectories. It argues that an approach to the history of music performance through the lens of migration can bring into view lives that have been obscured because they crossed borders and transgressed boundaries.
With reference to migration studies, empire studies, postcolonialist theory, celebrity studies and studies of violinists and violin culture, Double Stopping interweaves life stories and migration history to explore the interconnectedness of migration and music-making in an era of modernization and globalization.
Mobility and migration were integral to the careers of twentieth-century concert artists. Double Stopping explores how the increasing speed of travel and communication, the development of new media and the rise of celebrity culture enabled outstanding musicians to construct a global career.
Documenting movement through and between Belgium, Britain, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia and emerging hubs in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, this book explores aspects of musical migrant culture including the influence of teachers who were themselves migrants, the role of arts organizations in promoting (or hampering) the careers of immigrant musicians, the impact of the explicitly racist 'White Australia' policy on immigrant artists whose mission was to propagate whiteness and cultural elitism, the obstacles faced by women as aspiring soloists as well as immigrants, and the ways that migration re-oriented or re-shaped career trajectories. It argues that an approach to the history of music performance through the lens of migration can bring into view lives that have been obscured because they crossed borders and transgressed boundaries.
With reference to migration studies, empire studies, postcolonialist theory, celebrity studies and studies of violinists and violin culture, Double Stopping interweaves life stories and migration history to explore the interconnectedness of migration and music-making in an era of modernization and globalization.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Leaving Australia
- Chapter 1: For love of the violin: The travels, tribulations and triumphs of Johann Kruse
- Chapter 2: Alma Moodie: A tragic story of a true violin heroine
- Chapter 3: Miss Daisy Kennedy: āOf her sex without a doubt the foremost living violinistā
- Chapter 4: Dorcas McClean: An Australian violinist in the British World
- Chapter 5: Ernest Llewellyn: Australiaās leading violinist
- Chapter 6: Beryl Kimber OBE: Dynamic performer and pedagogue
- Part II: Arriving in Australia
- Chapter 7: Adventurer of consciousness: The violinist Henri Verbrugghen
- Chapter 8: Tossy Spivakovsky in exile: The Australian years
- Chapter 9: Richard Goldner: A Viennese violinist in mid-century Sydney
- Chapter 10: āTones of gently cradled eloquenceā: Robert Pikler, a Hungarian violinist in Australia
- Chapter 11: From the crossroads of two tyrannies: Nathan Gutman, violinist and educator
- Bibliography
- Index