Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna
- ISBN-10
- 019936270X
- ISBN-13
- 9780199362707
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 365
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (UK)
- Author
- David Lee Brodbeck
Description
This book offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in late-nineteenth-century Vienna. Drawing on an extensive selection of writings in the city's political press, correspondence, archival documents, and a large body of recent scholarship in late Habsburg cultural and political history, author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions. Often at stake in the critical discourse was the question of who and what could be deemed 'German' in the multinational Austrian state. This body of music-critical writing reveals a continuum of exclusivity, from a conception of Germanness rooted in social class and cultural elitism to one based in blood. Brodbeck neatly counters decades of musicological scholarship and offers an insight into the diverse ways in which educated German Austrians conceived of Germanness in music and understood their relationship to their non-German fellow citizens.
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