Challenging the Modern: Conservative Revolution in German Music, 1918-1933
Nicholas Attfield
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Hardback. The Weimar Republic is often seen as an era of progress for the arts, but strands of pessimism and conservatism also developed rapidly. In this cultural atmosphere, music and musical scholarship could provide forms of protest and resistance to modernity. Attfield's concentration on continuity challenges the received historiography of this period. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AVGC6; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists and historians between musical conservatism and political conservatism of the era. It does so through a critical and nuanced application of the term 'conservative revolution', as used throughout the Weimar era and popularised in its historiography after 1945. After an opening discussion of the time-honoured notion of 'Weimar Culture' and its tendency to obscure parts of the contemporary cultural landscape (and their relation to modernity and modernism), the book presents four contrasting ... Read more
This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists and historians between musical conservatism and political conservatism of the era. It does so through a critical and nuanced application of the term 'conservative revolution', as used throughout the Weimar era and popularised in its historiography after 1945. After an opening discussion of the time-honoured notion of 'Weimar Culture' and its tendency to obscure parts of the contemporary cultural landscape (and their relation to modernity and modernism), the book presents four contrasting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780197266137
SKU
V9780197266137
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About Nicholas Attfield
Nicholas Attfield holds a BMus from King's College, London and an MSt and DPhil from St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, the latter with a graduate year as Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. In 2007 he was DAAD Michael Foster Fellow at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, before taking up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford, with three months as Visiting ... Read more
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