Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice)
Editorial Reviews
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"This interesting and informative collection of essays on music in Germany between the world wars is both readable and scholarly....This informative collection of essays is strongly recommended to anyone interested in German culture, music, or theater during this exciting intellectual period." W. Ross, Choice
"[The book is] alive to the extraordinary contradictions and inconsistencies which ran through the Western world's most intensely developed musical culture as it weathered the upheavals of Weimar radicalism and Nazi manipulation....[It] is an exceptionally interesting collection of essays which open out into discussions of major aesthetic questions, of the political and economic pressures bearing on music and theatre, of the works produced and, to a lesser extent, issues of their dissemination and reception." Patrick Carnegy, Times Literary Supplement
Book Description
Following the collapse and ultimate overthrow of the Wilhelmine Empire, a new generation of artists found a fresh environment where they might flourish. Their optimism was accompanied by attempts to negate their recent past in various ways: by affirming modern technology, exploring music of a more remote past, and celebrating popular music. The essays contained in this volume address these fundamental issues. Examining the way in which German music was performed, staged, programmed, and received in the 1920s not only offers deeper insights into Weimar culture itself but sheds light on our contemporary musical world.
Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice),Bryan Randolph Gilliam,Cambridge University Press,0521420121,20th century,Genres & Styles - International,Germany,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Music,Music Of The 20th Century,Performance practice (Music),Social Aspects Of Music,Social aspects,20th century music,Music / General
Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice)
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