Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Reception (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 163) by Frackman, Kyle [Editor]; Powell, Larson [Editor]; - 2015-06-29

Ex. lib. Cover and spine are free of markings; bookplates on front fly leaf; cataloging info on title page; text is otherwise clean and in very good condition.

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… Read More

Camden House, 6/30/2015 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Like New. 1.0000 9.2000 6.2000. Brand New! Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Never opened! No signs of wear.

Hardback. New. 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.

Camden House, 2015. Hardcover. New. 274 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New. 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.