Martha Sprigge

Gebundenes Buch

Socialist Laments

Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic

Beschreibung

How do individuals, communities, and societies use music as a form of mourning? This book demonstrates how music became a crucial outlet for processing loss in communist East Germany, where the ruling Socialist Unity Party tightly regulated expressions of loss.

Autor

Martha Sprigge is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on musical expressions of mourning, grief, and remembrance in Germany after World War II. Her essays on musical commemorative practices in East Germany appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the journal Twentieth-Century Music, as well as in recent edited volumes on German music and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 159mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780197546321
• ISBN-10: 0197546323
• Artikelnr.: 60191823