UID:
almahu_9949080427802882
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781782045175 (ebook)
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〉
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 May 2021).
,
Provincialism, modernity, and the classical heritage : the administrative structure of the GDR and the situation of music production / Tatjana Böhme-Mehner -- Classicism as anti-fascist heritage : realism and myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer's Mansfelder Oratorium (1950) / Golan Gur -- Positioning Georg Knepler in the musicological discourse of the GDR / Lars Fischer -- Ehrt euren deutschen Meister : reproducing Wagner in the GDR / Peter Kupfer -- The embodiment of collective memory in Neue Odyssee / Jessica Payette -- Marxism and feminism in Ruth Berghaus's staging of Don Giovanni / Johanna Frances Yunker -- Beyond the Gewandhaus : Mahler and the GDR / Juliane Schicker -- Hanns Eisler's funeral and cultures of commemoration in the GDR / Martha Sprigge -- Exile--remigration--socialist realism : the role of classical music in the works of Paul Dessau / Matthias Tischer -- "What a satisfying task for a composer!" : Paul Dessau's music for the German story (...Du und mancher Kamerad) / Martin Brady and Carola Nielinger-Vakil -- Friedrich Schnyuer and the third way / Jonathan L. Yaeger -- A prism of East German music : Lothar Voigtländer / Albrecht von Massow.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781571139160
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782045175/type/BOOK
Bookmarklink
