Edinburgh German Yearbook 13 (eBook, PDF)

Music in German Politics / Politics in German Music
Redaktion: Donovan, Siobhán; Euchner, Maria

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Volume 13 deals with the interaction of music and politics, considering a broad range of genres, authors, composers, and artists in Germany since the nineteenth century.



A particularly iconic image of German Reunification is that of Mstislav Rostropovich playing from J. S. Bach's cello suites in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. Thirty years on, it is timely to reconsider the cross-fertilization of music and politics within the German-speaking context. Frequently employed as a motivational force, a propaganda tool, or even a weapon, music can imbue a sense of identity and belonging, triggering both comforting and disturbing memories. Playing a key role in the formation of Heimat and "Germanness," it serves ideological, nationalistic, and propagandistic purposes conveying political messages and swaying public opinion.
This volume brings together essays by historians, literary scholars, and musicologists on topics concerning the increasing politicization of music, especially since the nineteenth century. They cover a broad spectrum of genres, musicians, and thinkers, discussing the interplay of music and politics in "classical" and popular music: from the rediscovery and repurposing of Martin Luther in nineteenth-century Germany to the exploitation of music during the Third Reich, from the performative politics of German punk and pop music to the influence of the events of 1988/89 on operatic productions in the former GDR - up to the relevance of Ernst Bloch in our contemporary post-truth society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787445956
• Artikelnr.: 63207253

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction: Music and/as Politics in the German Context Maria
Euchner and Siobhán Donovan Part I. Appropriations and Misappropriations
Martin Luther in Nineteenth-Century Music, Literature, and Politics
Florian Gassner The 1848 Revolutionary Lyrics of Hoffmann von Fallersleben,
Herwegh, and Freiligrath in the German Folk Song Movement David Robb "Der
Kampf geht weiter": The Politics of Cover Versions in German Punk Rock
Peter Brandes Son of Kraut and an Old Herero? The Politics of German Pop
Musical Memory around 1990 Andrew Wright Hurley Part II. The Political
Gesamtkunstwerk: Opera and Film Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die
Tod-Verweigerung: Opera as Political Defiance Maria Euchner "Volk eilt
herzu": Beethoven's Opera Fidelioin Dresden on October 7 and 8, 1989, and
Its Ambivalent Afterlife Moray McGowan Soundtracks of the Holocaust in East
and West German Cinema: Jakob der Lügner (1974) and Hitler, ein Film aus
Deutschland (1977) Matt Lawson
Part III. The Uses and Abuses of Music
and PoliticsPolitical Ideology, Authentic Performance, and the Romantic
Metaphysics of Music: The Case of the Pianist Elly Ney Rolf J. Goebel The
Spirits of Utopia and of Disenchantment: Ernst Bloch, Hope, and Music in
the Age of Post-Truth Wolfgang Marx Notes on the Contributors