• 1. Stage and screen: Kurt Weill and operatic reform in the 1920s Bryan Gilliam; 2. Rethinking sound: music and radio in Weimar Germany Christopher Hailey; 3. 'Overcoming romanticism': on the modernisation of twentieth-century performance practice Robert Hill; 4. Lehrstück: an aesthetics of performance Stephen Hinton; 5. Singing Brecht versus Brecht singing: performance in theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke; 6. German musicology and early music performance, 1918–1933 Pamela Potter; 7. Jazz reception in Weimar Germany: in search of a shimmy figure J. Bradford Robinson; 8. The idea of Bewegung in the German organ reform movement of the 1920s Peter Williams.

"This interesting and informative collection of essays on music in Germany between the world wars is both readable and scholarly....This informative collection of essays is strongly recommended to anyone interested in German culture, music, or theater during this exciting intellectual period." W. Ross, Choice

• 1. Stage and screen: Kurt Weill and operatic reform in the 1920s Bryan Gilliam; 2. Rethinking sound: music and radio in Weimar Germany Christopher Hailey; 3. 'Overcoming romanticism': on the modernisation of twentieth-century performance practice Robert Hill; 4. Lehrstück: an aesthetics of performance Stephen Hinton; 5. Singing Brecht versus Brecht singing: performance in theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke; 6. German musicology and early music performance, 1918–1933 Pamela Potter; 7. Jazz reception in Weimar Germany: in search of a shimmy figure J. Bradford Robinson; 8. The idea of Bewegung in the German organ reform movement of the 1920s Peter Williams.

"This interesting and informative collection of essays on music in Germany between the world wars is both readable and scholarly....This informative collection of essays is strongly recommended to anyone interested in German culture, music, or theater during this exciting intellectual period." W. Ross, Choice

• 1. Stage and screen: Kurt Weill and operatic reform in the 1920s Bryan Gilliam; 2. Rethinking sound: music and radio in Weimar Germany Christopher Hailey; 3. 'Overcoming romanticism': on the modernisation of twentieth-century performance practice Robert Hill; 4. Lehrstück: an aesthetics of performance Stephen Hinton; 5. Singing Brecht versus Brecht singing: performance in theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke; 6. German musicology and early music performance, 1918–1933 Pamela Potter; 7. Jazz reception in Weimar Germany: in search of a shimmy figure J. Bradford Robinson; 8. The idea of Bewegung in the German organ reform movement of the 1920s Peter Williams.

"This interesting and informative collection of essays on music in Germany between the world wars is both readable and scholarly....This informative collection of essays is strongly recommended to anyone interested in German culture, music, or theater during this exciting intellectual period." W. Ross, Choice