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What is internal exile in music? / Albrecht Dümling -- Defining "Jewish music" in Nazi Germany / Lily E. Hirsch -- Olden melodies return / Joshua S. Walden -- Swearing an oath / Ben Winters -- From Surabaya to Ellis Island / Magnar Breivik -- Hanns Eissler's Hollywooder Liederbuch and "the new stuff of life" / James Parsons -- Karl Weigl's final years, 1938-1949 / Juliane Brand -- The transformation of Viktor Ullmann's compositional language / Kristof Boucquet -- Nazi censorship in music, Warsaw 1941 / Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek -- Paul Hirsch and Alfred Einstein / Erik Levi and Melina Gehring -- The abyss and the berries / Suzanne Snizek -- Music as memory / Malcolm Miller -- Problematic tendencies / Florian Scheding -- Nazism, anti-semitism in the Second Republic Spain (1931-1936) / Francisco Parralejo Masa -- The musical policies of the Third Reich in relation to the first years of Francoism (1938-1943) / Gemma Pérez Zalduondo -- Hispanic-German music festivals during the Second World War / Eva Moreda Rodríguez -- Some of the Jewish musicians are back at their desks / Emile Wennekes

Prologue : 1931, a Mozart year -- Der deutsche Mozart -- Mozart and the Freemasons : a Nazi problem -- Aryanising Mozart -- The Mozart diaspora -- "True humanitarian musician" : exiled writers on Mozart -- Mozart performance and propaganda : from the Anschluss to the end of World War II -- Mozart serves German imperialism -- Epilogue : Nazi legacies

The 20th Century has been called the era of displacement, exile, and mass migration. Bringing their music with them, migrants arrived in Britain throughout the century from all over the world. To this day, however, there has been no holistic discussion of their impact on British musical life. While excellent scholarly investigations of migrations and mobility as crucial factors for music in Britain have been undertaken, the field is fragmented, with insufficient collaboration across discussions of specific musical genres and diasporic communities. More broadly, musicology has long neglected migrations and migrants in its historicisation of a national cultural history. This forum places the migrant within discourses on national identity. The authors embrace a multi-faceted approach to the history of Britain's diverse musical immigrants across a wide range of musical styles and genres that span the entirety of the 20th century, reaching into the late 19th and the early 21st centuries. We reveal the impact of immigrant composers and second-generation migrants and diasporic communities with global backgrounds on popular music, musical comedy, jazz, concert music, folk music, and film music. The forum highlights the connections across genres, the time period, and diverse migrant backgrounds, thus revealing a multi-faceted narrative in which debates concerning 'the national' form a current in British musical life and open up questions regarding constructions of a national music history and historiography. The forum thus highlights the contributions of immigrants to British musical life; the extent to which immigrants are, or are not, narrated as part of British music history and the extent to which their musics have been marginalised or otherwise; and what opportunities this poses for an understanding of British music. In combination, the contributions challenge the notion that the migrant and the nation are incompatible, highlighting instead a narrative of (musical) diversity. Discussing the impact of migration as a sonically enriching experience seems urgent given how current debates frame immigration as a crisis at the heart of national socio-cultural discourses more broadly. Putting music centre stage, this colloquy widens the debate on migration as it encourages a discourse that is not restricted solely to economic, legal, and narrow political contexts. The focus on music allows for an exploration of the impact of highly skilled creative migrants on British cultural history. In turn, it sets it against questions of national belonging and the sonic-cultural narratisation of the nation. The forum includes contributions by Florian Scheding, Justin Williams (University of Bristol), Catherine Tackley (University of Liverpool), Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds), Erik Levi (Royal Holloway University of London), and Tom Western (University of Edinburgh).