Kurt Weill's America

When German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill arrived in the United States in 1935, he found a nation nothing like he imagined. This book tells the full story of Weill as outsider-turned-insider, showing how he was keenly attuned to the difficult relationship America had with her immigrants but was slower to grasp the subtleties of race relations.

Naomi Graber is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Georgia

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Weill's America, America's Weill
Chapter 2: Shifting Paradigms: Experiments in German and U.S. Alchemy
Chapter 3: For the People: Folk Music
Chapter 4: Living History: American History and World War II
Chapter 5: Alienation and Integration: Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 6: Israel in Egypt: Race and Ethnicity
Conclusion
Index