Soundtracking Germany - Popular Music and National Identity (Paperback)

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history, Soundtracking Germany describes how popular music can function as a language for "writing" national narratives. Running chronologically, all chapters historically contextualize and critically discuss the cultural relevance of the respective genre before moving into a close reading of one particularly relevant and appellative case study that reveals specific interrelations between popular music and constructions of Germanness. Close readings of these sonic national narratives in different moments of national transformations reveal changes in the narrative rhetoric as this book explores how Germanness is performatively constructed, challenged, and reaffirmed throughout the course of seventy years.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	Melanie Schiller
Dimensions:	220 x 153 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-78661-596-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
LSN:	1-78661-596-7
Barcode:	9781786615961

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