Archiv für August 2012

Town Musicians in German Baroque Society and Culture

One goal of this article is to open up new views on baroque musical life by applying the approaches of social historians to town musicians, a group that has been studied almost exclusively by musicologists. Another goal is to provide fresh insights to…

Embracing the Grail: Parsifal, Richard Wagner and the German Nation

The year 1913 marked both the centenary of Richard Wagner’s birth and, coincidentally, the final year of copyright protection for all his stage works. These events, coupled with the (failed) public campaign to maintain legal protection for Parsi…

Playing at Refinement: A Musicological Approach to Music, Gender and Class Around 1900

An unremarkable collection of music, examined by the author, is found to yield some interesting early-twentieth-century social history. The music from which Lucia König, a lower-middle-class girl, learned the piano, becomes a means of exploring h…

Orchestrating Identity: Concerts for the Masses and the Shaping of East German Society

AbstractThis article argues for a central role for music in the creation of an anti-fascist and socialist East German identity in the foundational phase of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) until the late 1950s. It focuses on the organization of th…

Class in German History

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/429?rss=1

Sex, Love and Communism

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/452?rss=1

Im Ringen um die Reformation: Kirchen und Pradikanten, Rat und Gemeinden in Augsburg

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/457?rss=1

Der Erzkanzler im Religionskrieg: Kurfurst Anselm Casimir von Mainz, die geistlichen Fursten und das Reich 1629 bis 1647

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/458?rss=1

Herzog Karl Alexander von Wurttemberg und die Landschaft (1733 bis 1737): Katholische Konfession, Kaisertreue und Absolutismus

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/460?rss=1

Hofjuden und Kulturburger: Die Geschichte der Familie Itzig in Berlin

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/461?rss=1