Martha Sprigge is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on musical expressions of mourning, grief, and remembrance in Germany after World War II. Her essays on musical commemorative practices in East Germany appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the journal Twentieth-Century Music, as well as in recent edited volumes on German music and culture.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsListening Guide for East German Commemorative MusicIntroductionChapter 1: The RuinChapter 2: The Socialists' CemeteryChapter 3: The ChurchChapter 4: Concentration Camp MemorialsChapter 5: The Artists' CemeteryBibliographyIndex

Sprigge's inventive study invites us to hear a sonic history of East Germany through its threnody culture, debunking tenacious Cold War shibboleths along the way. Socialist Laments is a vital contribution to German Studies, Trauma Studies, and Musicology.

Martha Sprigge is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on musical expressions of mourning, grief, and remembrance in Germany after World War II. Her essays on musical commemorative practices in East Germany appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the journal Twentieth-Century Music, as well as in recent edited volumes on German music and culture.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsListening Guide for East German Commemorative MusicIntroductionChapter 1: The RuinChapter 2: The Socialists' CemeteryChapter 3: The ChurchChapter 4: Concentration Camp MemorialsChapter 5: The Artists' CemeteryBibliographyIndex

Sprigge's inventive study invites us to hear a sonic history of East Germany through its threnody culture, debunking tenacious Cold War shibboleths along the way. Socialist Laments is a vital contribution to German Studies, Trauma Studies, and Musicology.

Martha Sprigge is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on musical expressions of mourning, grief, and remembrance in Germany after World War II. Her essays on musical commemorative practices in East Germany appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the journal Twentieth-Century Music, as well as in recent edited volumes on German music and culture.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsListening Guide for East German Commemorative MusicIntroductionChapter 1: The RuinChapter 2: The Socialists' CemeteryChapter 3: The ChurchChapter 4: Concentration Camp MemorialsChapter 5: The Artists' CemeteryBibliographyIndex

Sprigge's inventive study invites us to hear a sonic history of East Germany through its threnody culture, debunking tenacious Cold War shibboleths along the way. Socialist Laments is a vital contribution to German Studies, Trauma Studies, and Musicology.