Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.

Examines a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the two regions

Highlights the global mobility of musical performers, teachers, and students

Illuminates the rich and complex interaction between music and culture through a number of historical cases

Chapter 1: The Idea of Entanglement, Historiography, and Organization.- Part 1: German-Japanese/Korean Entanglements, 1900-1945: Wagner, Bandmasters, and Japanese Students.- Chapter 2: The Reception of Wagner in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Non-Musical Dimension of Cross-Border Music Transfer.- Chapter 3: Music for Modern Korea: Bandmasters Franz Eckert and Baek U-yong.- Chapter 4: Japanese Musicians in Germany and Austria, 1880-1945.- Part 2: Sino-German Entanglements, 1900-1949: Operas, Beethoven, and Jewish Cantors.- Chapter 5: The "Oriental" Utopia: Postwar Orientalism and Ferruccio Busoni's Opera Turandot.- Chapter 6: Reimagining China in Interwar German Opera: Eugen d'Albert's Mister Wu and Ernst Toch's Der Fächer.- Chapter 7: Demarcation and Cooperation: Nazi-persecuted Jewish Cantors in Shanghai Exile, 1938-1949.- Chapter 8: What Beethoven Meant in China, 1900-1949: Music, Ideology and Power.- Part 3: German-East Asian Entanglements since 1945: Ferienkurse, Mozart, and East Asian Composers.- Chapter 9: Mozart in the Context of Globalization: The Musician as Agent of Cultural Hybridity.- Chapter 10: When "Japanese" Music Became "Modern" Music: The Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik as Intercultural Agency.- Chapter 11: The Music of the Korean-German Composer Yun Isang in the Cold War Era: Interculturality and Engagement Art.- Chapter 12: Korean Contemporary Music and Germany: An Examination of Four Korean Composers