alienhood

Updated: May 21, 2025

But it was just the racial attributes, the racial gesture and accent, that a man in Mahler's position found inordinately difficult to register. For Austrian society put a great price on his suppression of them. It permitted him to participate in its activities only on the condition that he did not remind it continually of his alienhood, of his racial consciousness.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers