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Author : Roger Christian Skarsten
Release : 2012
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Book Synopsis Singing Arminius, Imagining a German Nation by : Roger Christian Skarsten
Download or read book Singing Arminius, Imagining a German Nation written by Roger Christian Skarsten. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Eichner
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis History in Mighty Sounds by : Barbara Eichner
Download or read book History in Mighty Sounds written by Barbara Eichner. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable study of nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism. Music played a central role in the self-conception of middle-class Germans between the March Revolution of 1848 and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be 'universal' and thus apolitical, it participated- like the other arts - in the historicist project of shaping the nation's future by calling on the national heritage. Compositions based on - often heavily mythologised - historical events and heroes, such as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest or the medieval Emperor Barbarossa, invited individual as well as collective identification and brought alive a past that compared favourably with contemporary conditions. History in Mighty Sounds mapsout a varied picture of these 'invented traditions' and the manifold ideas of 'Germanness' to which they gave rise, exemplified through works by familiar composers like Max Bruch or Carl Reinecke as well as their nowadays little-known contemporaries. The whole gamut of musical genres, ranging from pre- and post-Wagnerian opera to popular choruses to symphonic poems, contributes to a novel view of the many ways in which national identities were constructed, shaped and celebrated in and through music. How did artists adapt historical or literary sources to their purpose, how did they negotiate the precarious balance of aesthetic autonomy and political relevance, and how did notions of gender, landscape and religion influence artistic choices? All musical works are placed within their broader historical and biographical contexts, with frequent nods to other arts and popular culture. History in Mighty Sounds will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism. Barbara Eichner is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Oxford Brookes University.
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Release : 2012
Genre : Electronic journals
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Author : Mary Fulbrook
Release : 2000-12-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Representing the German Nation by : Mary Fulbrook
Download or read book Representing the German Nation written by Mary Fulbrook. This book was released on 2000-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Germany, with its ruptures from late unification in 1871 through to the formation of two opposing German states, provides a case study for an analysis of the issue of representations of identity in Germany since the war.
Author : David Blackbourn
Release : 2023-06-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by : David Blackbourn
Download or read book Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 written by David Blackbourn. This book was released on 2023-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history—the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime—are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders.
