基本説明
Focusing on the reconstruction and division of Berlin's musical community after 1945, the author demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the city's elite musical institutions.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 19th-Century Berlin and the Invention of German Musical Tradition
2. A Tradition and its Growing Pains: Music in Weimar Berlin
3. National Socialism and Exile
4. "The Show Must Go On": Reconstruction and Occupation (1945/46)
5. The Golden Hunger Years (1946/47)
6. The Cold War Heats Up: Music in a Divided City (1948/49)
7. Two Germanys, Two Musical Traditions (1950/51)
8. Musical and Political Walls (1951-1965)
9. Reinventing Tradition (1965-1990)
Appendix
Graphs
Bibliography
Index
