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How do individuals, communities, and societies use music as a form of mourning? This book demonstrates how music became a crucial outlet for processing loss in communist East Germany, where the ruling Socialist Unity Party tightly regulated expressions of loss.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Listening Guide for East German Commemorative Music
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Ruin
- Chapter 2: The Socialists' Cemetery
- Chapter 3: The Church
- Chapter 4: Concentration Camp Memorials
- Chapter 5: The Artists' Cemetery
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Martha Sprigge is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on musical expressions of mourning, grief, and remembrance in Germany after World War II. Her essays on musical commemorative practices in East Germany appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the journal Twentieth-Century Music, as well as in recent edited volumes on German music and culture.
Summary
How do individuals, communities, and societies use music as a form of mourning? This book demonstrates how music became a crucial outlet for processing loss in communist East Germany, where the ruling Socialist Unity Party tightly regulated expressions of loss.
Additional text
How do Marxists mourn? In her moving, deeply researched study of commemoration in the former East Germany, Martha Sprigge answers this question through music
