Dreams of Germany

Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

Neil Gregor, Thomas Irvine (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-826-9 (ISBN)

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Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.

For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale.

Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. His past books include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (winner of the 1998 Fraenkel Prize for History), Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (winner of the 2008 Fraenkel Prize for History), and How to Read Hitler (new edition, 2014).

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Neil Gregor and Thomas Irvine

PART I: SPACES AND MOMENTS OF AFFECT

Chapter 1. “The German in the Concert Hall”: Concertgoing and National Belonging in the Early Twentieth Century

Hansjakob Ziemer

Chapter 2. “Music Made in Hamburg”: How One City’s Music Scene Helped Make Rock and Roll the Lingua Franca of Youth

Julia Sneeringer

Chapter 3. “With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music”: Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in Berlin

Luis-Manuel Garcia

PART II: THE LOCAL, THE REGIONAL, THE NATIONAL

Chapter 4. Bruckner, Munich, and the Longue Durée of Musical Listening between the Imperial and Postwar Eras

Neil Gregor

Chapter 5. Female Musicians and “Jewish” Music in the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 1934–38 123

Dana Smith

Chapter 6. Pride of Place: The 1963 Rebuilding of the Munich Nationaltheater

Emily Richmond Pollock

PART III: GLOBALIZING MUSICAL GERMANNESS

Chapter 7. Was ist Japanisch? Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern Japan

Brooke McCorkle

Chapter 8. Hubert Parry, Germany, and the “North”

Thomas Irvine

PART IV: FANTASIES, REMINISCENCES, DREAMS, NIGHTMARES

Chapter 9. Between Musicology and Mythology at the Stunde Null:Austria’s 950th “Birthday” and the 50th Anniversary of Bruckner’s Death

Lap-Kwan Kam

Chapter 10. Hearing the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic: Antifascist Fantasies, Acoustic Realities, and Haunted

Memories in Georg Katzer’s Aide –Mémoire (1983)

Martha Sprigge

Chapter 11. Sprockets + Autobahn: Kraftwerk Parodies, German Electronic Music, and Retro Dreams in Amerika

Sean Nye

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78920-826-2 / 1789208262
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-826-9 / 9781789208269
Zustand	Neuware