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Das Buch stellt den Anspruch, Phänomene, die man als "Klassiker" bezeichnet, besser zu verstehen und zugleich tradierter Vorstellungen darüber, was als klassisch gilt oder zu gelten hat, zu korrigieren. Dazu wird "Klassik" nicht, wie in den historischen und ideologiekritischen Debatten üblich, als Epochenbegriff verstanden, sondern als eine kulturelle Praxis, die in medialen und lebensweltlichen Adaptionen realisiert wird. Gefragt wird, kurz gesagt, wie und warum einige Autor*innen oder Werke über längere historische Perioden hinweg präsent bleiben und ein Kulturgut – in dem Fall exemplarisch die Ballade – so ausdrücklich prägen, dass sie als "Klassiker" wahrgenommen werden. Die Antwort geht von der These aus, dass dies – im Unterschied zu immer noch verbreiteten essentialistischen Erklärungsansätzen – nicht von der Qualität des Autors oder der Autorin bzw. ihrer Werke abhängt, sondern von soziokulturellen Bedarfskonstellationen.Im Ergebnis der Arbeit steht ein Zugriff, der "Klassik" nicht wiederholt als ein umstrittenes Konzept problematisiert, sondern als kulturwissenschaftliches Phänomen komplementär zum Kanon heuristisch profiliert und darüber hinaus ein Begriffsangebot zu dessen Analyse macht. For the last three centuries, prominent thinkers have been asking themselves what it is that constitutes a classic. This volume takes up this question and shows how cultural artifacts become and remain classics through transcultural circulation, i.e., through their adaptation in ever-changing media and the expansion of the cultural milieu in which they are received.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Intermediality. --- canon. --- folk song. --- transculturality.

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" In September, 2014, Baltimore and the United States will mark the bicentennial of the event that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." But Francis Scott Key's poem, set to a British drinking song, has not always been our anthem, nor even especially popular. Aiming at a broad readership, Ferris examines the history of the song through the generations that followed the War of 1812, the kinds of Americans who rallied behind the song, and the successful lobbying effort that in 1933 convinced Congress to adopt the music and four stanzas as our official national anthem. Since then many citizens have called for its replacement with something less warlike; people quarrel over its apparent militarism and also difficulty level. Politically, Ferris finds, the song has an interesting and somewhat tortured story. Are we the only nation on earth with a controversial national anthem?"--Provided by publisher.

National songs --- History and criticism. --- Star-spangled banner (Song)

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Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough

Song cycles --- Songs --- Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Winterreise --- Song cycles -- Analysis, appreciation --- Songs -- Texts --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Instruction & Study --- Lyrics --- Popular music --- Popular music lyrics --- Popular song lyrics --- Popular song texts --- Song texts --- Cycles, Song --- Cycles (Literature) --- Analysis, appreciation --- Texts --- Schubert, Franz, --- E-books --- Texts. --- Analysis, appreciation.

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China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. Artistically gifted, he guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness but is known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. In this comprehensive biography, Patricia Ebrey corrects the prevailing view of Huizong as decadent and negligent, recasting him as a ruler ambitious in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm. After a rocky start trying to overcome political animosities at court, Huizong turned his attention to the good he could do. He greatly expanded the court's charitable ventures, founding schools, hospitals, orphanages, and paupers' cemeteries. Surrounding himself with poets, painters, and musicians, he built palaces, temples, and gardens of unsurpassed splendor. Often overlooked, however, is the importance of Daoism in Huizong's life. He treated spiritual masters with great deference, wrote scriptural commentaries, and urged his subjects to adopt his beliefs and practices. This devotion to the Daoist vision of sacred kingship eventually alienated the Confucian mainstream and compromised Huizong's ability to govern. Ebrey's lively biography adds new dimensions of understanding to a passionate, paradoxical ruler who, many centuries later, inspires both admiration and disapproval.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. --- Song Huizong, --- Sung Hui-tsung, --- Zhao, Ji, --- Xuanhe, --- Chao, Chi, --- Hsüan-ho, --- Song Hwijong, --- 宋徽宋, --- 宋徽宗, --- 趙佶, --- China --- History --- Songhuizong,

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Folk music festivals --- Folk song festivals --- Music festivals --- History. --- Newport Folk Festival