Music Exile in “Old” and “New Worlds”

This new book on the contributions made by musicians fleeing Hitler and ending up in Iceland touches on an important subject that has only rarely been examined: the fates of those musicians who found refuge in the “Old World” of other European countries, or countries with their own established musical traditions, and musicians who fled to the New World, where European colonisation had already planted seeds of European music. Both options presented advantages and disadvantages, though very different advantages and disadvantages.