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Recomposing German Music

Recomposing German Music

Janik, Elizabeth

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld Music

ISBN10: 900414661X
ISBN13: 9789004146617
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 28 2005
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
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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