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Title Music in German Politics / Politics in German Music / edited by Siobhán Donovan, Maria Euchner ; general editor, Frauke Matthes
Published Rochester, New York : Boydell & Brewer, Inc, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Series Edinburgh German Yearbook ; 13
Edinburgh German yearbook ; 13.
Contents Introduction: music and/as politics in the German context / Maria Euchner and Siobhán Donovan -- 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 -- Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung: opera as political defiance / Maria Euchner -- "Volk eilt herzu": Beethoven's opera Fidelio in Dresden on October 7 and 8, 1989, and its ambivalent afterlife / Moray McGowan -- Soundtracks of the Holocaust in East and West German cinemas: Jakob der Lügner (1974), and Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977) / Matt Lawson -- Political 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
Summary 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
Subject Music and state -- Germany
Music -- Political aspects -- Germany
Music and state
Music -- Political aspects
Germany
Form Electronic book
Author Donovan, Siobhán, 1966- editor.
Euchner, Maria, editor.
Matthes, Frauke, editor
Gassner, Florian
Robb, David G
Brandes, Peter
Hurley, Andrew Wright
McGowan, Moray
Lawson, Matt
Goebel, Rolf J
ISBN 178744595X
9781787445956