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Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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Over the first four decades of the Reformation, hundreds of songs
written in popular styles and set to well-known tunes appeared
across the German territories. These polemical songs included
satires on the pope or on Martin Luther, ballads retelling
historical events, translations of psalms and musical sermons. They
ranged from ditties of one strophe to didactic Lieder of fifty or
more. Luther wrote many such songs and this book contends that
these songs, and the propagandist ballads they inspired, had a
greater effect on the German people than Luther's writings or his
sermons. Music was a major force of propaganda in the German
Reformation. Rebecca Wagner Oettinger examines a wide selection of
songs and the role they played in disseminating Luther's teachings
to a largely non-literate population, while simultaneously
spreading subversive criticism of Catholicism. These songs formed
an intersection for several forces: the comfortable familiarity of
popular music, historical theories on the power of music, the
educational beliefs of sixteenth-century theologians and the need
for sense of community and identity during troubled times. As
Oettinger demonstrates, this music, while in itself simple,
provides us with a new understanding of what most people in
sixteenth-century Germany knew of the Reformation, how they
acquired their knowledge and the ways in which they expressed their
views about it. With full details of nearly 200 Lieder from this
period provided in the second half of the book, Music as Propaganda
in the German Reformation is both a valuable investigation of music
as a political and religious agent and a useful resource for future
research.
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