Dreams of Germany

Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton.Thomas Irvine is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southampton.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNeil Gregor and Thomas IrvinePART I: SPACES AND MOMENTS OF AFFECTChapter 1. "The German in the Concert Hall": Concert-going and National Belonging in the Early Twentieth CenturyHansjakob ZiemerChapter 2. "Music Made in Hamburg": How One City's Music Scene Helped Make Rock and Roll the Lingua Franca of YouthJulia SneeringerChapter 3. "With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess and Good Music": Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in BerlinLuis-Manuel GarciaPART II: THE LOCAL, THE REGIONAL, THE NATIONALChapter 4. Bruckner, Munich, and the Long Duree of Musical Listening Between the Imperial and the Post-War ErasNeil GregorChapter 5. Female Musicians and "Jewish" Music in the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 1934-1938Dana SmithChapter 6. Pride of Place: The 1963 Rebuilding of the Bayerische StaatsoperEmily Richmond PollockPART III: GLOBALISING MUSICAL GERMANNESSChapter 7. Was ist Japanisch: Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern JapanBrooke McCorkleChapter 8. Hubert Parry, Germany, and the "North"Thomas IrvinePART IV: FANTASIES, REMINISCENCES, DREAMS, NIGHTMARESChapter 9. Between Musicology and Mythology at the Stunde Null: Austria's 950th "Birthday" and the 50th Anniversary of Bruckner's DeathLK KamChapter 10. Hearing the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic: Antifascist Fantasies, Acoustic Realities, and Haunted Memories in Georg Katzer's Aide - Memoire (1983)Martha SpriggeChapter 11. Sprockets + Autobahn: Kraftwerk Parodies, German Electronic Music, and Retro Dreams in AmerikaSean NyeConclusionIndex

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