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Music and German National Identity - Softcover

Applegate, Celia; Potter, Pamela M.

 
9780226021317: Music and German National Identity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226021319 ISBN 13: 9780226021317
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2002

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Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music—Bach, Beethoven, Brahms—are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire? Over the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music.

This book explores the questions of how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated as "the most German art." Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars in German history, musicology, and German literature, the essays assembled here examine philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents, as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, and pop to explore the ways in which music has continued to play a central role in the German national imagination and in shaping German identity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Celia Applegate is an associate professor of history at the University of Rochester. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat.

Pamela Potter is an associate professor in the musicology and German departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich.

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Concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire: composers like the three "Bs" of classical music, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, all of whom are German. Over the past three centuries, many supporters of German music have even nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music.

This book brings together seventeen contributors from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, and German literature to explore these questions: how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated "the most German of arts." Unlike previous volumes on this topic, many of which focused primarily on Wagner and Nazism, the essays here are wide-ranging and comprehensive, examining philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, rock, and pop.

The result is a striking volume, adeptly addressing the complexity and variety of ways in which music insinuated itself into the German national imagination and how it has continued to play a central role in the shaping of a German identity.

Contributors to this volume:

Celia Applegate
Doris L. Bergen
Philip Bohlman
Joy Haslam Calico
Bruce Campbell
John Daverio
Thomas S. Grey
Jost Hermand
Michael H. Kater
Gesa Kordes
Edward Larkey
Bruno Nettl
Uta G. Poiger
Pamela Potter
Albrecht Riethmüller
Bernd Sponheuer
Hans Rudolf Vaget

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Concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire: composers like the three "Bs" of classical music, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, all of whom are German. Over the past three centuries, many supporters of German music have even nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music.

This book brings together seventeen contributors from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, and German literature to explore these questions: how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated "the most German of arts." Unlike previous volumes on this topic, many of which focused primarily on Wagner and Nazism, the essays here are wide-ranging and comprehensive, examining philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, rock, and pop.

The result is a striking volume, adeptly addressing the complexity and variety of ways in which music insinuated itself into the German national imagination and how it has continued to play a central role in the shaping of a German identity.

Contributors to this volume:

Celia Applegate
Doris L. Bergen
Philip Bohlman
Joy Haslam Calico
Bruce Campbell
John Daverio
Thomas S. Grey
Jost Hermand
Michael H. Kater
Gesa Kordes
Edward Larkey
Bruno Nettl
Uta G. Poiger
Pamela Potter
Albrecht Riethmüller
Bernd Sponheuer
Hans Rudolf Vaget

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226021319
ISBN 13 
9780226021317
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
330
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