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African American soprano Grace Bumbry sparked a controversy in West Germany when she became the first black musician to sing at the Bayreuth Festival Opera House in July 1961. This article demonstrates how race served two separate... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesGerman StudiesMusic HistoryMusicology
In 1877, the African American musical ensemble known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers traveled to Germany to raise money for their university. The choir’s ten-month tour provided German listeners with one of their first significant and... more
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      ChristianityCultural StudiesBlack Studies Or African American StudiesGerman Studies
This chapter examines how white Germans and Austrians defined the relationship between art music and black musicianship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that listeners came to believe that African American spirituals –... more
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      Cultural HistoryBlack Studies Or African American StudiesGerman StudiesMusic
publicado em: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4uupogg_hHNRk9IZEVKMm9HUnc/view Resumo: O presente artigo apresenta ao público brasileiro a poeta afro-alemã May Ayim (1960-1996) e traça bases teóricas de minha pesquisa de mestrado em... more
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      Cultural TranslationAfrofuturismAfro-German StudiesMay Ayim
When African American concert singers began to perform German lieder in central Europe in the 1920s, white German and Austrian listeners were astounded by the veracity and conviction of their performances. How had they managed to sing... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesGerman StudiesMusicMusicology
In this article I explore the influence of Afrofuturism on Olivia Wenzel's play Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien. The play focuses on the black German protagonist Noah by showing scenes from his life, ranging from his childhood in... more
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      German StudiesPosthumanismAfrofuturismEast Germany
The popular perception of the First World War has remained an inherently white mythic space in which white men fight against other white men and where minorities, when and if they are featured, are given an anonymous secondary role and... more
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      HistoryRace and RacismVideo GamesHistorical memory
Dies ist der erste Versuch, das Leben des aus der Karibik stammenden Offiziers William Nicolas Reed zu rekonstruieren, der 1848 der einzige schwarze Offizier einer deutschen Armee war. Reed war eine historisch bemerkenswerte... more
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      EthnohistoryMinority StudiesCultural History of WarAmerican Civil War
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesGerman StudiesGerman HistoryBlack/African Diaspora
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesGerman StudiesGerman HistoryBlack/African Diaspora
In dem Artikel wird aufgezeigt, wie sich Kernideen des Afropolitanismus in afrodeutscher Gegenwartslyrik wiederfinden. Die lyrischen Texte "Dein Land" von Philipp Khabo Koepsell, "travelling" von Olumide Popoola und "heimatlos [versuch... more
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      Afro-German StudiesPoems AnalysisAfropolitanismInbetweenness
1992 brachte die Gruppe "Advanced Chemistry" in Eigenregie den Song "Fremd im eigenen Land" heraus. Die Single markierte den Wendepunkt in der Entwicklung von deutschsprachigem Rap und war in zweierlei Hinsicht ein besonderes Ereignis.... more
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      German StudiesGerman LiteratureMusic HistoryPopular Culture
May Ayim is one of the best-known representatives of both the Black German movement and Black German literature. Her individual and collaborative works helped to shape collective modes of Black German identity, making visible and... more
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      German StudiesGerman Literature20th Century German LiteratureAfro-German Studies
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      Art HistoryAbstractionDiaspora and transnationalismAbstract Expressionism