Hearing Music in a Different Key: Ideological Implications in Works of German Music

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Kristopher Imbrigotta Jost Hermand

Hearing Music in a Different Key

Ideological Implications in Works of German Music

Kristopher Imbrigotta, Jost Hermand

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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
15 August 2022

World music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Literary studies: poetry & poets; History

Series: German Life & Civilization

«This volume epitomizes Jost Hermand’s inimitable talent of synthesizing wide-ranging disciplines in an accessible and compelling style, bringing to life the experiences of musicians and their public in the context of their own times. These essays also give us a glimpse into how his own life experiences created the hunger for culture that defined his long and illustrious career.» (Pamela M. Potter, Professor of German and Musicology, University of Wisconsin—Madison)

　

«Jost Hermand’s final book is an enormously rich gift to posterity. The fifteen essays on musical culture that constitute this collection contain brief but illuminating glimpses of the whole glorious parade of serious music and those who composed, cultivated, and commented on it in the German lands, from Buxtehude to Stockhausen and beyond. His insight and well-observed contextualization reveals a lifetime of scholarship and experience.» (Celia Applegate, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University)

　

In contrast to the writings of many other musicologists, this book is not primarily concerned with the biographies of certain composers or a structural analysis of their major compositions, but rather with the stands they took in the ideological struggles during their lifetimes and how these affected some of their most important works. Beginning with the late seventeenth century, special emphasis is thereby given to Pietism, orthodox Lutheranism, the impact of the French Revolution, the restrictive measures of the Metternich period, the Wilhelminian era, Expressionism, the New Objectivity and the materialist aesthetics of the Weimar Republic, fascism, exile and the modernism of the early Federal Republic of Germany.

By: Jost Hermand
Series edited by: Kristopher Imbrigotta
Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 74
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781800797666
ISBN 10: 1800797664
Series: German Life & Civilization
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 15 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jost Hermand (1930–2021) got his Ph.D. at the Marburg University in German literature and art history. Since 1958 he taught German cultural history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (USA). Between 2003 and 2013 he lectured as Honorary Professor of German at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Among his most important publications are a German cultural history in nine volumes (1959–2010) with Richard Hamann and Frank Trommler, a book about literary methodology entitled Interpretive Synthesis, books on the German opera, utopian thinking, the history of ecological awareness in Germany and German-Jewish history, as well as books on Ludwig van Beethoven, Heinrich Heine, Adolph Menzel and Bertolt Brecht.