Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic - Production and Reception

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Music and Heritage in the German Democratic Republic
Provincialism, Modernity, and the Classical Heritage: The Administrative Structure of the GDR and the Situation of Music Production
Classicism as Anti-Fascist Heritage: Realism and Myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer's Mansfelder Oratorium (1950)
Positioning Georg Knepler in the Musicological Discourse of the GDR
Ehrt euren Deutschen Meister: Reproducing Wagner in the GDR
The Embodiment of Collective Memory in Neue Odyssee
Marxism and Feminism in Ruth Berghaus's Staging of Don Giovanni
Beyond the Gewandhaus: Mahler and the GDR
Hanns Eisler's Funeral and Cultures of Commemoration in the GDR
Exile-Remigration-Socialist Realism: The Role of Classical Music in the Works of Paul Dessau
"What a Satisfying Task for a Composer!": Paul Dessau's Music for The German Story (.Du und mancher Kamerad)
Friedrich Schenker and the Third Way
A Prism of East German Music: Lothar Voigtländer
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Kyle Frackman, Larson Powell

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kyle Frackman, Larson Powell
• Assisted by: Kyle Frackman (Editor), Kyle (Customer) Frackman (Editor), Larson Powell (Editor), Professor Larson (Customer) Powell (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781571139160
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-916-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Weight: 576 g
• Illustrations: 13 black & white illustrations
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous