History in mighty sounds : musical constructions of German national identity, 1848-1914 /

Music played a central role in the self-conception of many Germans between the 1848 Revolution and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be 'universal' and thus apolitical, it participated in the historicist project of shaping the nation's future by calling on...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eichner, Barbara, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2012.
Series:Music in society and culture.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Opera > Germany > 19th century.
Opera > Germany > 20th century.
Nationalism in music.
Patriotic music > Germany > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nationalisme dans la musique.
Musique patriotique > Allemagne > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MUSIC > General.
Nationalism in music
Opera
Patriotic music
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The pure mirror : national epic as national opera
  • Germanic heroes for modern Germans : gender and the nation
  • Lost in transfiguration : redemption operas in the Fin de siecle
  • The sacred nation and the singing nation : the choral movements
  • Symphonic visions from the periphery.

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