Romantic rebellion, romantic retreat : music and "1968" in West Germany
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- West Germany numbers among the many countries for which the year "1968" symbolizes an era of social unrest. My dissertation presumes that the fraught sociopolitical climate of this time and place somehow reverberated in art music. I particularly focus on compositions written in the decade following 1968. These works -- by composers including Wolfgang Rihm, Wilhelm Killmayer, and Dieter Schnebel -- reinvigorate certain characteristics of nineteenth-century music. My dissertation presents two interpretations of how this "neo-romantic" music developed from both the music of the 1960s and the "1968" context -- a context known in Germany as the Studentenbewegung, or West German student protest movement. One interpretation, which already exists in German musicology, views this music as development as a retreat from the progressive aesthetic and social ideals that had prevailed in the previous decade. The other, which my study helps to establish, views the same music as a modified continuation of the very rebellion that had characterized the immediate past. Both interpretations draw upon specific musical examples, prose writings of composers, previous scholarship about music particularly and West German culture generally, as well as the roughly contemporaneous social and aesthetic theories of T.W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Balik, Jessica Ann |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music |
| Primary advisor | Berger, Karol, 1947- |
| Primary advisor | Rodin, Jesse |
| Primary advisor | Ulman, Erik, 1969- |
| Thesis advisor | Berger, Karol, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Rodin, Jesse |
| Thesis advisor | Ulman, Erik, 1969- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jessica Balik. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2011 by Jessica Ann Balik
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