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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 afterauthor Elizabeth Janik demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the city’s elite musical by: "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 afterauthor Elizabeth Janik demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the city's elite musical institutions.

Berlin became a crucible for competing. 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 afterauthor Elizabeth Janik demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the city’s elite musical by: Elizabeth Janik, Recomposing German Music: Political and Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin (Leiden: Brill, ), – John Bitter, “Theater and Munich Report,” OctoRGBoxRecords of the Education and Cultural Resources Branch, NARA II.

Aster, Das Reichsorchester, Author: Abby Anderton. Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past.

Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And. German Pop Culture sheds new light on the "Americanization" of German culture during the latter part of the 20th century, with special emphasis on post-Unification literature, music, and film.

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to produce a piece of music, poetry, or formal writing in a different way: 2. to make yourself. Learn more. Janik, Elizabeth, Recomposing German Music: Politics and Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin (Leiden and Boston: Brill, ). Jenks, John, British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ).

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One of the greatest and most celebrated performing artists of the twentieth century, Herbert von Karajan () dazzled, intrigued, and intimidated the music world. As the young Karajan told his brother, "Whether it's conducting, skiing, or motor racing, I simply want to be the best."Richard Osborne draws on his own extensive conversations with Karajan, interviews.

I hold a Ph.D. in History and a M.A. in German and European Studies from Georgetown University, and my book, Recomposing German Music: Politics and Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin, explores the tangled relationship between German music and politics during post-WWII reconstruction, Allied occupation, and the emerging division between east.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 19th-Century Berlin and the Invention of German Musical Tradition2. A Tradition and its Growing Pains: Music in Weimar Berlin3. National Socialism and Exile4. "The Show Must Go On": Reconstruction and Occupation (/46)5. The Golden Hunger Years (/47)6.

The Cold War Heats Up: Music in a Divided City (/49)7. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen 1st Edition. James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Adam Whittaker Febru Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we.

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music. It does not aim to find 'a solution' in a liberal feminist sense, but to discover new potentialities, new possibilities for thought and action.

Sally Macarthur encourages us, with the assistance of Deleuze, and feminist-Deleuzian work, to begin the. Recomposing German Music: Politics And Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin (Studies in Central European Histories, V. 40) by Elizabeth Janik | Nov 1, Hardcover.

East German Music and the Problem of National Identity Article in Nationalities Papers 37(4) July with 32 Reads How we measure 'reads'. On May 7,a German U-Boat fired torpedoes at the RMS Lusitania, a civilian ocean liner, and sank it in the Atlantic. 1, people died, and the incident cause international furor, catalyzing the already messy first World War and giving America more reason to declare war a.

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Important works on music in the GDR include Elizabeth Janik, Recomposing German Music: Politics and Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin (Leiden, ); Toby Thacker, Music after Hitler, – (Aldershot, ); Laura Silverberg, ‘The East German Sonderweg to Modern Music, –’ (Ph.D.

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