Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic

Production and Reception
Editors: Frackman, Kyle; Powell, Larson

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Produktbeschreibung

Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781571139160
• ISBN-10: 1571139168
• Artikelnr.: 41964338

Autorenporträt

Kyle Frackman, Larson Powell

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Music and Heritage in the German Democratic Republic
Provincialism, Modernity, and the Classical Heritage: The Administrative
Structure of the GDR and the Situation of Music Production Classicism as
Anti-Fascist Heritage: Realism and Myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer's
Mansfelder Oratorium (1950) Positioning Georg Knepler in the Musicological
Discourse of the GDR Ehrt euren Deutschen Meister: Reproducing Wagner in
the GDR The Embodiment of Collective Memory in Neue Odyssee Marxism and
Feminism in Ruth Berghaus's Staging of Don Giovanni Beyond the Gewandhaus:
Mahler and the GDR Hanns Eisler's Funeral and Cultures of Commemoration in
the GDR Exile-Remigration-Socialist Realism: The Role of Classical Music in
the Works of Paul Dessau "What a Satisfying Task for a Composer!": Paul
Dessau's Music for The German Story (.Du und mancher Kamerad) Friedrich
Schenker and the Third Way A Prism of East German Music: Lothar Voigtländer
Notes on the Contributors Index