The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Berlin via Paris
•   1. Le Belle Époque and Überbrettl
•   2. The Great American Cultural Invasion
•   3. Kurt Weill and Die Dreigroschenoper
•   4. Lotte Lenya, Future Tony Award Winner
•   5. The Long, Strange Journey of Marlene Dietrich
•   6. Hollaender, Spoliansky and Their Doomed Associates
•   7. Christopher Isherwood, Reporting from Berlin
•   8. Total Collapse of the Moral Universe
•   9. A Field Day for the Neue Sachlichkeit
• 10. Josef von Sternberg Captures It All on Film
• Part II: Amerika and Beyond
• 11. From the Kurfürstendamm to Broadway
• 12. Kabarett Helps to Win the War
• 13. The Resurrection of Mahagonny
• 14. Louis Armstrong Connects the Dots
• 15. Bacharach and David Redefine the Brill Building
• 16. Cabaret on Stage and Film
• 17. The British Importation of Kleinkunst
• 18. Singer-Songwriters Become Bankable
• 19. Adoption by the Alternative Scene
• 20. A Turbulent New Century Begins
• Conclusion
• English Glossary of German and French Terminology
• Chapter Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index