COMPOSING CANON GERMAN DEMOC REPUBLIC C

Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic uses the reception of the Germanic musical heritage to chart the changing landscape of musical culture in the German Democratic Republic. Author Elaine Kelly demonstrates the nuances of musical thought in the state, revealing a model of societal ascent and decline that has implications that reach far beyond studies of the GDR itself.

Elaine Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. She is co-editor, together with Amy Wlodarski, of Art outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (2013). Her research has been published in journals such as 19th-Century Music, Music & Letters, and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Bourgeois Pasts and Socialist Futures
- Part 1: Constructing the Canon
- Chapter 1: Writing the Nation
- Chapter 2: A Case of Wagner
- Part 2: Critiquing the Canon
- Chapter 3: Late Beethoven and Late Socialism
- Chapter 4: The Romantic Revival and the Search for Utopia
- Chapter 5: Staging Late Socialism: Ruth Berghaus and the German Opera Tradition
- Epilogue: Art After Socialism
- Bibliography