Silence and secrets: the Australian experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators.
TitleSilence and secrets: the Australian experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators.
Author
Call number781.65092/0001
Object number08612
Place of publicationClayton, Victoria, Australia
PublisherMonash University Publishing
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionx,305p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
ISBN9781921867804
Description
The Weintraubs Syncopators were international muscial celebrities of the 1930s. This band of mainly Jewish musicians arrived in Sydney, Australia in1937. They gained employment at the high end of Sydney night clubs but when the war came were forced to come to terms with a change in their status, from celebrities to enemy aliens.