Soundtracking Germany : Popular Music And National Identity

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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.


  • | Author: Melanie Schiller
  • | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2018
  • | Number of Pages: 288 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1786606224
  • | ISBN-13: 9781786606228
Author:
Melanie Schiller
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date:
Jun 13, 2018
Number of pages:
288 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1786606224
ISBN-13:
9781786606228