| Description |
vi, 264 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Contents |
Provincialism, modernity, and the classical heritage : the administrative structure of the GDR and the situation of music production / Tatjana Böhme-Mehner -- Classicism as anti-fascist heritage : realism and myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer's Mansfelder Oratorium (1950) / Golan Gur -- Positioning Georg Knepler in the musicological discourse of the GDR / Lars Fischer -- Ehrt euren deutschen Meister : reproducing Wagner in the GDR / Peter Kupfer -- The embodiment of collective memory in Neue Odyssee / Jessica Payette -- Marxism and feminism in Ruth Berghaus's staging of Don Giovanni / Johanna Frances Yunker -- Beyond the Gewandhaus : Mahler and the GDR / Juliane Schicker -- Hanns Eisler's funeral and cultures of commemoration in the GDR / Martha Sprigge -- Exile -- remigration -- socialist realism : the role of classical music in the works of Paul Dessau / Matthias Tischer -- "What a satisfying task for a composer!" : Paul Dessau's music for the German story (... Du und mancher Kamerad) / Martin Brady and Carola Nielinger-Vakil -- Friedrich Schenker and the third way / Jonathan L. Yaeger -- A prism of East German music : Lothar Voigtländer / Albrecht von Massow. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Music -- Germany (East) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Germany (East) |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Composers -- Germany (East)
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Composers. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Frackman, Kyle, editor.
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Powell, Larson, 1960- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781571139160 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1571139168 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40025046479 |
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