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Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic - New Cultural History of Music Sprigge, Martha (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California - Santa Barbara)
Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic - New Cultural History of Music
Sprigge, Martha (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California - Santa Barbara)
How do individuals, communities, and societies use music as a form of mourning? This book demonstrates how music became a crucial outlet for processing loss in communist East Germany, where the ruling Socialist Unity Party tightly regulated expressions of loss.
376 pages, 25 figures and 40 music examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 10, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780197546321 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 164 × 32 mm · 664 g |