Soundtracking Germany

Popular Music and National Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Melanie Schiller, Assistant Professor of Me Schiller, Melanie

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-06-13
Mått158 x 239 x 25 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePopular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786606228

Tillhör följande kategorier

Populärmusik inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

Introduction: Made in Germany / 1. The Natives of Trizonesia [Germanness Without a Nation] / 2. The Sound of Uncanny Silence [Beat, The Silent Nation and International Imaginaries] / 3. Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn [Kraftwerk and the Open-Ended Narrative of the Nation] /4. Hitler on the Dance Floor [Queering the Nation] / 5. Most German of the Arts? [Techno and the Celebration of the Nation] / Conclusion: Another Time of Writing

Melanie Schiller has written a brilliant study...Melanie Schiller’s book is to be thoroughly recommended as a major achievement in the area of pop music and national identity formation. Unlike so many sociological studies on the same topic, she manages to tease out the decisive points in her meticulous contextualisations and in-depth interpretations of carefully selected pop songs. Combined with her theoretical contribution to the discussion, Soundtracking Germany is an indispensable work.