Soundtracking Germany - Popular Music and National Identity

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Made in Germany / 1. The Natives of Trizonesia [Germanness Without a Nation] / 2. The Sound of Uncanny Silence [Beat, The Silent Nation and International Imaginaries] / 3. Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn [Kraftwerk and the Open-Ended Narrative of the Nation] /4. Hitler on the Dance Floor [Queering the Nation] / 5. Most German of the Arts? [Techno and the Celebration of the Nation] / Conclusion: Another Time of Writing

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Melanie Schiller is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Zusammenfassung

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Melanie Schiller
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786606228
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-622-8
• Seiten: 288
• Serien: POPULAR MUSICS MATTER SOCIAL P; Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions; Popular Musics Matter: Social,; Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Easy listening, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Popular Music, Popular music, easy listening