Music and Resistance Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45

• Main Author: Custodis, Michael (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Waxmann Verlag 2021
• Series: Münsteraner Schriften zur zeitgenössischen Musik 6
• Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Occupation; Concentration Camp; Nazism; Church Music
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The role of music during the German occupation of Norway (1940-45) proves to be an exceptional case for cultural opposition in a dictatorship. Few famous musicians, some local celebrities and innumerous hardly known activists preferred artistic instead of militant means to demonstrate reluctance, sp...