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The development of German pop music represents a fascinating cultural mirror to the history of post-war Germany, reflecting sociological changes and political developments. While film studies is an already established discipline, German pop music is currently emerging as a new and exciting field of academic study.This pioneering companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, charting the development of German pop music from the post-war period 'Schlager' to the present 'Diskursrock'. Written by acknowledged experts from Germany, the UK and the US, the various chapters provide overviews of pertinent genres as well as focusing on major bands such as CAN, Kraftwerk or Rammstein. While these acts have shaped the international profile of German pop music, the volume also undertakes in-depth examinations of the specific German contributions to genres such as punk, industrial, rap and techno.The survey is concluded by an interview with the leading German pop theorist Diedrich Diederichsen. The volume constitutes an indispensible companion for any student, teacher and scholar in the area of German studies interested in contemporary popular culture.

Popular music --- History and criticism. --- German culture. --- German music. --- Kraftwerk. --- pop music.

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Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athaneum for over thirty years. This three-volume book originated in a journal written by Chorley while travelling in Europe, which he edited heavily before its publication in 1841. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad', focusing on aspects that would be least familiar to an English readership. Volume 2, mainly on Germany, begins with Chorley's impressions of the Harz mountains. He then describes the cultural scene in Berlin - opera, theatre, art galleries and monuments. A final chapter reflects upon Parisian journalism of the time. Chorley's incisive and entertaining eye-witness accounts will fascinate music-lovers and theatre historians, as well as others interested in the performing arts or travel writing in the nineteenth-century.

Music --- History and criticism. --- Chorley, Henry Fothergill, --- Chorley, H. F. --- Chorley, Henry F. --- Author of Old love and new fortune, --- Old love and new fortune, Author of, --- Author of Modern German music, --- Modern German music, Author of, --- Bell, Paul, --- Chorley, H. T.,

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"For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the 'land of music'. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale"--

Music --- National characteristics, German. --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism. --- German influences. --- bavaria. --- berlin. --- case studies. --- dance. --- engaging. --- europe. --- fascism. --- female musicians. --- german concert halls. --- german culture. --- german democratic republic. --- german music scene. --- german music. --- german musicians. --- german society. --- germany. --- hamburg. --- historical. --- history. --- identity. --- jewish music. --- land of music. --- live arts. --- mass media. --- modern german history. --- munich national theater. --- munich. --- musicology. --- mythology. --- nazi past. --- performing arts. --- politics. --- postwar germany. --- rock and roll. --- technological advances. --- theater. --- theatrical productions. --- wagnerism. --- war.

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Volume 13 deals with the interaction of music and politics, considering a broad range of genres, authors, composers, and artists in Germany since the nineteenth century.

Music --- Political aspects --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Germany --- Politics and government. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Contemporary Relevance. --- German Music. --- German Reunification. --- German-speaking Context. --- Ideology. --- Music Propaganda. --- Music and Politics. --- Nationalism.

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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870's through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker. Frisch explores "ambivalent" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past-the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.

Art and music. --- Modernism (Art) --- Modernism (Music) --- Music --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Music and art --- History and criticism. --- Musique --- Modernisme (musique) --- Modernisme (art) --- Art et musique. --- 19th century european music. --- 20th century european music. --- ambivalent modernism. --- arnold schoenberg. --- austro german music. --- california studies in 20th century music. --- early modernism. --- eugen dalbert. --- franz schreker. --- german modernism. --- german naturalism. --- gustav mahler. --- hans pfitzner. --- historicist modernism. --- late richard wagner. --- max reger. --- max von schillings. --- modernism. --- modernist music. --- modernity. --- music and visual arts. --- music history. --- music. --- musicians. --- nietzsche. --- richard strauss. --- thomas mann. --- wagner.