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Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity

Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity

Schiller, Melanie

Hardcover

Series: Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interv

General SociologyPop/Rock

ISBN10: 1786606224
ISBN13: 9781786606228
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jun 13 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history, Soundtracking Germany describes how popular music can function as a language for writing national narratives. Running chronologically, all chapters historically contextualize and critically discuss the cultural relevance of the respective genre before moving into a close reading of one particularly relevant and appellative case study that reveals specific interrelations between popular music and constructions of Germanness. Close readings of these sonic national narratives in different moments of national transformations reveal changes in the narrative rhetoric as this book explores how Germanness is performatively constructed, challenged, and reaffirmed throughout the course of seventy years.

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