Music After Hitler 1945 1955

Author : Toby Thacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557832

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Music after Hitler, 1945-1955 by Toby Thacker Pdf

The political control of music in the Third Reich has been analysed from several perspectives, and with ever increasing sophistication. However, music in Germany after 1945 has not received anything like the same treatment. Rather, there is an assumption that two separate musical cultures emerged in East and West alongside the division of Germany into two states with differing economic and political systems. There is a widely accepted view of music in West Germany as 'free', and in the East subject to party control. Toby Thacker challenges these assumptions, asking how and why music was controlled in Germany under Allied Occupation from 1945-1949, and in the early years of 'semi-sovereignty' between 1949 and 1955. The 're-education' of Germany after the Hitler years was a unique historical experiment and the place of music within this is explored here for the first time. While emphasizing political, economic and broader social structures that influenced the production and reception of different musical forms, the book is informed by a sense of human agency, and explores the role of salient individuals in the reconstruction of music in post-war Germany. The focus is not restricted to any one kind of music, but concentrates on those aspects of music, professional and amateur, live and recorded, which appeared to be the mostly highly charged politically to contemporaries. Particular attention is given to 'denazification' and to the introduction of international music. Thacker traces the development of a divide between Communist and liberal-democratic understandings of the place of music in society. The contested celebrations of the Bach Year in 1950 are used to highlight the role of music in the broader cultural confrontation between East and West. Thacker examines the ways in which central governments in East and West Germany sought to control and influence music through mechanisms of censorship and positive support. The book will therefore be of interest not only

Author : Brian Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Band musicians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026138060

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The Military Music & Bandsmen of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, 1933-1945 by Brian Matthews Pdf

Author : Michael H. Kater,Albrecht Riethmüller
Publisher : Laaber : Laaber
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015056937025

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Music and Nazism by Michael H. Kater,Albrecht Riethmüller Pdf

Author : Helma Kaldewey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486187

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A People's Music by Helma Kaldewey Pdf

Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.

Author : Pamela M. Potter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520282346

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Art of Suppression by Pamela M. Potter Pdf

This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the NazisÕ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Potter maintains that although the persecution of Jewish artists and other Òenemies of the stateÓ was a high priority for the Third Reich, removing them from German cultural life did not eradicate their artistic legacies. Art of Suppression examines the cultural histories of Nazi Germany to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life during the Third Reich.

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199981014

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Composing Dissent by Robert Adlington Pdf

The 1960s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians with a pronounced commitment to social and political engagement. This book presents the Dutch experience as an exemplary case study in the complex and conflictual encounter of the musical avant-garde with the decade's currents of social change.

Author : Michael H. Kater
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300259247

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After the Nazis by Michael H. Kater Pdf

A wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany--from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in West Germany. The culture and institutions of the Third Reich were abruptly dismissed, yet there was no immediate return to the Weimar period's progressive ideals. In this moment of cultural stasis, how could West Germany's artists free themselves from their experiences of Nazism? Moving from 1945 to reunification, Michael H. Kater explores West German culture as it emerged from the darkness of the Third Reich. Examining periods of denial and complacency as well as attempts to reckon with the past, he shows how all postwar culture was touched by the vestiges of National Socialism. From the literature of Günter Grass to the happenings of Joseph Beuys and Karlheinz Stockhausen's innovations in electronic music, Kater shows how it was only through the reinvigoration of the cultural scene that West Germany could contend with its past--and eventually allow democracy to reemerge.

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782385011

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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Author : Michael H. Kater
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Arts
ISBN : 9780300211412

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Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater Pdf

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany's military campaigns. Michael H. Kater's engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within Nazi Germany considers how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed when the Nazis came to power. With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, Kater details the struggle between creative autonomy and political control as he looks at what became of German artists and their work both during and subsequent to Nazi rule.

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683930044

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Yearbook of Transnational History by Thomas Adam Pdf

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as soccer, travel, music, and social policy. These articles highlight the movement of ideas, people, policies, and practices across various cultures and societies and explore the relations and connections, and spaces created by these movements. These articles make clear that historical phenomena from travel to music cannot be contained and explained within just one national setting. The volume offers, further, a number of theoretical and methodological articles that provide insights into the concept of transnational history and the approach of intercultural transfer studies. Last but not least, the volume also includes a number of review articles. These review articles provide an examination of books central to teaching transnational history as well as a historiographical exploration of the impact of transnational history on the field of sports history.

Author : T. Thacker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230274228

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Joseph Goebbels by T. Thacker Pdf

An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180418

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harald Jähner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593319741

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Aftermath by Harald Jähner Pdf

How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The New York Times)—of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. Featuring over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period. The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins—no mail, no trains, no traffic—with bodies yet to be found beneath the towering rubble. Aftermath received wide acclaim and spent forty-eight weeks on the best-seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019. It is the first history of Germany's national mentality in the immediate postwar years. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Harald Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed by Jähner as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future—and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today.

Author : T. Thacker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0230278663

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Joseph Goebbels by T. Thacker Pdf

An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:49015003410470

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German Politics and Society by Anonim Pdf