Martha Sprigge

Socialist Laments

Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney 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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Listening Guide for East German Commemorative Music
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Ruin
Chapter 2: The Socialists' Cemetery
Chapter 3: The Church
Chapter 4: Concentration Camp Memorials
Chapter 5: The Artists' Cemetery
Bibliography
Index