Download or read book Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic written by Elaine Kelly and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republis uses the reception of the Germanic musical heritage to chart the changing landscape of musical culture in the German Democratic Republic. Author Elaine Kelly demonstrates the nuances of musical thought in the state, revealing a model of societal ascent and decline that has implications that reach far beyond studies of the GDR itself"--Jacket.

Download or read book Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic written by Elaine Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational ideals of progress, Bildung, and revolution that had first come to fruition with Goethe and Beethoven would finally achieve their apotheosis. Central to this founding myth was the Germanic musical heritage. Just as the canon had defined the idea of the German nation in the nineteenth-century, so in the GDR it contributed to the act of imagining the collective socialist state. Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic uses the reception of the Germanic musical heritage to chart the changing landscape of musical culture in the German Democratic Republic. Author Elaine Kelly demonstrates the nuances of musical thought in the state, revealing a model of societal ascent and decline that has implications that reach far beyond studies of the GDR itself. The first book-length study in English devoted to music in the GDR, Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic is a seminal text for scholars of music in the Cold War and in Germany more widely.

Download or read book Socialist Laments written by Martha Sprigge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the national past. Official commemorative culture in East Germany celebrated a selective set of political heroes, seeming to leave no public space for mourning those who were excluded from the country's founding myths. Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic examines the role of music in this nation's memorial culture, demonstrating how music facilitated the expressions of loss within spaces of commemoration for East German citizens. Music performed during state-sponsored memorial rituals no doubt bolstered official narratives of the German past. But it simultaneously provided an outlet for mourning in highly politicized environment. The book presents both a history and theory of musical mourning in East Germany. Using a site-specific approach to analysis, author Martha Sprigge demonstrates how the multiple semantic networks opened up by these musical works facilitated many memorial associations without necessitating the overt articulation of a mourned subject. Throughout the country's forty-year existence, music offered East German citizens an audible outlet for working through traumatic losses-both collective and individual-that was distinct from other artistic expressive possibilities. The book reveals the ways that East Germany's extensive commemorative repertoire helped composers, performers, and audiences navigate between the inevitable need to mourn on the one hand, and the seeming impossibilities of mourning on the other.

Download or read book Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic written by Kyle Frackman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book GDR Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A People s Music written by Helma Kaldewey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.

Download or read book International Women s Writing written by Anne E. Brown and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-01-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays to explore the diversity of female identity as it is expressed in the literature of 29 world writers from 15 different countries.

Download or read book Divided Heaven written by Christa Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Critical History of German Film written by Stephen Brockmann and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than an aesthetic phenomenon; earlier surveys that do engage with individual films do not include films of recent decades. This book treats representative films from the beginnings of German film to the present. Providing historical context through an introduction and interchapters preceding the treatments of each era's films, the volume is suitable for semester- or year-long survey courses and for anyone with an interest in German cinema. The films: The Student of Prague - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Last Laugh - Metropolis - The Blue Angel - M - Triumph of the Will - The Great Love - The Murderers Are among Us - Sun Seekers - Trace of Stones - The Legend of Paul and Paula - Solo Sunny - The Bridge - Young T rless - Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Germany in Autumn - The Marriage of Maria Braun - The Tin Drum - Marianne and Juliane - Wings of Desire - Maybe, Maybe Not - Rossini - Run Lola Run - Good Bye Lenin - Head On - The Lives of Others Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and past President of the German Studies Assocation.

Download or read book Music in Germany Since 1968 written by Alastair Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Download or read book Studies in GDR Culture and Society 7 written by Margy Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this symposium was 'The GDR Today and Tomorrow.' Topics included in the eighteen papers comprising this volume are the ambivalence of progress, the situation of minorities, nation-building and national identity, and methods and goals of socialization. Co-published with the Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.

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Download or read book Navigating Socialist Encounters written by Eric Burton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.

Download or read book Foreign Front written by Quinn Slobodian and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Front describes the activism that took place in West Germany in the 1960s when more than 10,000 students from Asia, Latin America, and Africa were enrolled in universities there. They served as a spark for local West German students to mobilize and protest the injustices that were occurring wordwide.

Download or read book Musical Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for include section: The Organ world.

Download or read book Who s who in the Socialist Countries of Europe written by Juliusz Stroynowski and published by De Gruyter Saur. This book was released on 1989 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceausescu lives at least in the pages of references which, try as they may, can't keep up with the pace of events in Eastern Europe. And this one tries a biographical encyclopedia of some 12,600 leading personalities from all spheres in eight nominally socialist countries. The biographies (which inc