Soundtracking Germany : Popular Music and National Identity Hardback
by Melanie, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music, University of Groni Schiller
Part of the Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions series
Hardback
Description
This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.
By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history, Soundtracking Germany describes how popular music can function as a language for "writing" national narratives.
Running chronologically, all chapters historically contextualize and critically discuss the cultural relevance of the respective genre before moving into a close reading of one particularly relevant and appellative case study that reveals specific interrelations between popular music and constructions of Germanness.
Close readings of these sonic national narratives in different moments of national transformations reveal changes in the narrative rhetoric as this book explores how Germanness is performatively constructed, challenged, and reaffirmed throughout the course of seventy years.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:19/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781786606228
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:19/05/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786606228