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Recomposing German music : politics and tradition in Cold War Berlin / by Elizabeth Janik.
- Title
- Recomposing German music : politics and tradition in Cold War Berlin / by Elizabeth Janik.
- Author
- Janik, Elizabeth
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | ML275.8.B47 J36 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 354 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Recomposing German Music illuminates the tangled relationship between music and politics in 20th-century Germany. Focusing on the reconstruction and division of Berlin's musical community after 1945, author Elizabeth Janik demonstrates how military occupation and Cold War rivalry transformed the city's elite musical institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Central European histories ; v. 40
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Central European histories ; v. 40.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-339) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. 19th-century Berlin and the invention of German musical tradition -- Ch. 2. A tradition and its growing pains : music in Weimar Berlin -- Ch. 3. National socialism and exile -- Ch. 4. "The show must go on" : reconstruction and occupation (1945/46) -- Ch. 5. The golden hunger years (1946/47) -- Ch. 6. The Cold War heats up : music in a divided city (1948/49) -- Ch. 7. Two Germanys, two musical traditions (1950/51) -- Ch. 8. Musical and political walls (1951-1965) -- Ch. 9. Reinventing tradition (1965-1990).
- ISBN
- 900414661X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005050824
- OCLC
- 61200752
- SCSB-11690656
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library