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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.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction: Music and/as Politics in the German Context
Maria Euchner and Siobhán Donovan<1>Part I. Appropriations and Misappropriations
Martin Luther in Nineteenth-Century Music, Literature, and Politics
Florian GassnerThe 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 BrandesSon of Kraut and an Old Herero? The Politics of German Pop Musical Memory around 1990
Andrew Wright Hurley<1>Part II. The Political
Gesamtkunstwerk: Opera and Film
Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung: Opera as Political Defiance
Maria Euchner"Volk eilt herzu": Beethoven's Opera
Fidelioin Dresden on October 7 and 8, 1989, and Its Ambivalent Afterlife
Moray McGowanSoundtracks of the Holocaust in East and West German Cinema:
Jakob der Lügner (1974) and
Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977)
Matt Lawson<1> Part III. The Uses and Abuses of Music and PoliticsPolitical Ideology, Authentic Performance, and the Romantic Metaphysics of Music: The Case of the Pianist Elly Ney
Rolf J. GoebelThe Spirits of Utopia and of Disenchantment: Ernst Bloch, Hope, and Music in the Age of Post-Truth
Wolfgang MarxNotes on the Contributors
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.
