Recomposing German Music: Politics And Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin"Recomposing German Music" illuminates the tangled relationship between music and politics in 20th-century Germany. Focusing on the reconstruction and division of Berlin's musical community after 1945, author Elizabeth Janik demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the city's elite musical institutions. Berlin became a crucible for competing interpretations of German musical tradition. Cultural authorities in East and West Berlin disputed the social authority responsible for defining and upholding musical standards, the appropriate relationship between art and the state, the definition of musical progress, and finally, the nature and purpose of music itself. This study is an important contribution to the social history of 20th-century music and the comparative cultural history of the two Cold War Germanys. |
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Contents
Chapter One 19thCentury Berlin and the Invention | 1 |
Music | 31 |
Chapter Three National Socialism and Exile | 59 |
Reconstruction | 81 |
Chapter Five The Golden Hunger Years 194647 | 125 |
Music in | 169 |
Chapter Seven Two Germanys Two Musical Traditions | 209 |
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| Title | Recomposing German Music: Politics And Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin Volume 40 of Studies in Central European histories / Studies in Central European histories |
| Author | Elizabeth Janik |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2005 |
| ISBN | 900414661X, 9789004146617 |
| Length | 354 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Social History Music / Genres & Styles / International Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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