Format:
1 online resource (vi, 264 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781782045175
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9781571139160
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bourgeois humanist inheritance." The large numbers of professional orchestras in the GDR were touted as a proof of the country's culture. Classical music could be seen as the polar opposite of Americanizing pop culture and also of musical modernism, which was decried as formalist. Nevertheless, there were still musical modernists in the GDR, and classical music traditions were not only a prop of the state.〈BR〉 This collection of new essays approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, presenting the work of scholars in a number of complementary disciplines, including German Studies, Musicology, Aesthetics, and Film Studies. Contributors to this volume offer a broad examination of classical music in the GDR, while also uncovering nonconformist tendencies andquestioning the assumption that classical music in the GDR meant nothing but (socialist) respectability.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Contributors: Tatjana Böhme-Mehner, Martin Brady, Lars Fischer, Kyle Frackman, Golan Gur, Peter Kupfer, Albrecht von Massow, Carola Nielinger-Vakil, Jessica Payette, Larson Powell, Juliane Schicker, Martha Sprigge, Matthias Tischer, Jonathan L. Yaeger, Johanna Frances Yunker〈BR〉〈BR〉Kyle Frackman is Assistant Professor of German at the University of British Columbia. Larson Powell is Professor of German at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.〈BR〉〈BR〉
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571139160
Additional Edition:
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Language:
English
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