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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.
This significant volume moves music-historical research in the
direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music
history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and
thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and
cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book
confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about
the importance of the national in the musical past. The emphasis,
therefore, is not so much on how national culture has been
constructed, or how national cultural institutions have influenced
musical production, but, rather, on the way the national has been
challenged by musical practices or audience reception.
This significant volume moves music-historical research in the
direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music
history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and
thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and
cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book
confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about
the importance of the national in the musical past. The emphasis,
therefore, is not so much on how national culture has been
constructed, or how national cultural institutions have influenced
musical production, but, rather, on the way the national has been
challenged by musical practices or audience reception.
Explores the complex ethical dilemmas of human mobility in the
context of climate changeCurrently, adaptation policy for climate
change prioritises economic and technological dimensions of
governance and action. Now, Elaine Kelly brings continental theory
into the conversation to explore the ethical dilemmas stemming from
emerging global political crises of migration, displacement and
communal relocation related to climate change. She argues that, in
the era of anthropocentric climate change, an 'ethos of dwelling'
must underpin adaptation practices. Key FeaturesThe first focused
engagement to apply deconstruction and Levinasian ethics to the
pressing and complex dilemmas of climate change and human
mobilityDetailed case studies of Bangladesh, the Torres Strait
Islands and Queensland in Australia and New Orleans in the US bring
into sharp focus the ethics and politics of adapting to climate
change and how this universal phenomenon is experienced unevenly by
the poor and marginalisedInterdisciplinary and multi-methodological
approach, relevant to disciplines from cultural studies to
philosophy and from ecohumanities to international relations
Explores the complex ethical dilemmas of human mobility in the
context of climate change Currently, adaptation policy for climate
change prioritises economic and technological dimensions of
governance and action. Now, Elaine Kelly brings continental theory
into the conversation to explore the ethical dilemmas stemming from
emerging global political crises of migration, displacement and
communal relocation related to climate change. She argues that, in
the era of anthropocentric climate change, an 'ethos of dwelling'
must underpin adaptation practices.
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