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Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic - Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music (Hardcover)
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Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic - Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music (Hardcover)
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When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its
leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they
represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that
was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second
German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational ideals of
progress, Bildung, and revolution that had first come to fruition
with Goethe and Beethoven would finally achieve their apotheosis.
Central to this founding myth was the Germanic musical heritage.
Just as the canon had defined the idea of the German nation in the
nineteenth-century, so in the GDR it contributed to the act of
imagining the collective socialist state.
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic uses the
reception of the Germanic musical heritage to chart the changing
landscape of musical culture in the German Democratic Republic.
Author Elaine Kelly demonstrates the nuances of musical thought in
the state, revealing a model of societal ascent and decline that
has implications that reach far beyond studies of the GDR itself.
The first book-length study in English devoted to music in the GDR,
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic is a seminal
text for scholars of music in the Cold War and in Germany more
widely.
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