Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52506-1 (ISBN)
A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers. This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to perform a Jewish tango at executions before they themselves were murdered. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book shows how the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.
Willem de Haan, Ph.D. (1989) is Professor Emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He published on history of crimes against humanity and genocide: ‘Knowing what we know now: International Crimes in Historical Perspective’, Journal of International Criminal Justice (2015).
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1 Memory and Myth
1Serendipity
2Legend and Myth
3Holocaust Legends
4Methodology
5Ethics
2 Music in the Camps
1Nazi Concentration Camps
2Music in the Camps
3Singing
4 Camp Orchestras
5 Purpose of Camp Music
6 Repertoire
7 Memories of Wagner
8 Wagner Myths
3 The Tango of Death
1Singing Tangos
2Three Versions
3Which One Is It?
4 The Orchestra of Death
1Nuremberg
2Provenance
3The Photographer
4The Photograph
5Location
6The Court
7Returning to the Iconic Image
5 The Death of the Orchestra
1Reasons for Doubt
2Fictionalizing Testimony
6 The Fugue of Death
1The Poet
2The Poem
3The Title
4Inspiration
5The Legend
7 Preserving History
1Imagining Horror
2Capturing the Imagination
3Memorializing and Obfuscating
4Visualizing the Tango of Death
5Preserving History
Literature
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Jews, Judaism, and the Arts ; 3 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 369 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-52506-8 / 9004525068 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-52506-1 / 9789004525061 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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