Recomposing German Music: Politics And Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin"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
19thCentury Berlin and the Invention | 1 |
Long Live Progress | 26 |
New Sounds | 38 |
New Social Base | 64 |
Reconstruction | 81 |
From the Tsar to Lady Macbeth | 88 |
The Russians in Berlin | 97 |
Inventing American Musical Tradition | 106 |
Music in | 169 |
The Recasting of Allied Cultural | 178 |
Chapter Seven Two Germanys Two Musical Traditions | 209 |
Chapter Eight Musical and Political Walls 19511965 | 247 |
Chapter Nine Reinventing Tradition 19651990 | 275 |
Appendix | 305 |
Most Frequently Performed American | 316 |
Bibliography | 323 |
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