Dreams of Germany (eBook)

Thomas Irvine is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He has published widely in leading musicology journals in English and German. His book Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 is published by University of Chicago Press.

Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. His past books include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (winner of the 1998 Fraenkel Prize for History), Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (winner of the 2008 Fraenkel Prize for History), and How to Read Hitler (new edition, 2014).

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Neil Gregor and Thomas Irvine

PART I: SPACES AND MOMENTS OF AFFECT

Chapter 1. “The German in the Concert Hall”: Concertgoing and National Belonging in the Early Twentieth Century
Hansjakob Ziemer

Chapter 2. “Music Made in Hamburg”: How One City’s Music Scene Helped Make Rock and Roll the Lingua Franca of Youth
Julia Sneeringer

Chapter 3. “With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music”: Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in Berlin
Luis-Manuel Garcia

PART II: THE LOCAL, THE REGIONAL, THE NATIONAL

Chapter 4. Bruckner, Munich, and the Longue Durée of Musical Listening between the Imperial and Postwar Eras
Neil Gregor

Chapter 5. Female Musicians and “Jewish” Music in the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 1934–38 123
Dana Smith

Chapter 6. Pride of Place: The 1963 Rebuilding of the Munich Nationaltheater
Emily Richmond Pollock

PART III: GLOBALIZING MUSICAL GERMANNESS

Chapter 7. Was ist Japanisch? Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern Japan
Brooke McCorkle

Chapter 8. Hubert Parry, Germany, and the “North”
Thomas Irvine

PART IV: FANTASIES, REMINISCENCES, DREAMS, NIGHTMARES

Chapter 9. Between Musicology and Mythology at the Stunde Null:Austria’s 950th “Birthday” and the 50th Anniversary of Bruckner’s Death
Lap-Kwan Kam

Chapter 10. Hearing the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic: Antifascist Fantasies, Acoustic Realities, and Haunted
Memories in Georg Katzer’s Aide –Mémoire (1983)
Martha Sprigge

Chapter 11. Sprockets + Autobahn: Kraftwerk Parodies, German Electronic Music, and Retro Dreams in Amerika
Sean Nye

Index