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Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Reception

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Reception

Frackman, Kyle
Powell, Larson

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 163

Classical MusicGerman HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1571139168
ISBN13: 9781571139160
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Jun 30 2015
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.

Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called bourgeois humanist inheritance. The largenumbers of professional orchestras in the GDR were touted as a proof of the country's culture. Classical music could be seen as the polar opposite of Americanizing pop culture and also of musical modernism, which was decried as formalist. Nevertheless, there were still musical modernists in the GDR, and classical music traditions were not only a prop of the state.

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