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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Daub, Adrian
Titre(s) : What the ballad knows [Texte imprimé] : the ballad genre, memory culture, and German nationalism / Adrian Daub
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-286 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : New cultural history of music series
Lien à la collection : The new cultural history of music
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"The German ballad was an unusual poetic genre: supposedly inspired by a treasure
trove of authorless poems that had for centuries circulated among the common people,
the ballad attained popularity in the form of deeply ironic poems written by some
of Germany's most canonic authors. Supposedly a celebration of the oral culture of
the German Volk, the ballad instead circulated through the emerging channels of nineteenth
century culture industry: from anthologies and picture books via the exploding market
for song settings, from the opera house to the vaudeville stage, the ballad hewed
to its medieval pretence while sounding surprisingly modern. This book traces the
strange trajectory of this poetic genre from its origins in the late 18th century
to its political appropriations in the 20th. Throughout, the ballad and its path across
a wide variety of milieus and media told a surprising and contradictory story of the
German nation. What The Ballad Knows shows that, even though the ballad arrived in
Germany as a literary genre, it very quickly came to make its home in between different
genres and even different media - to the point that laypeople were as likely to encounter
it in a concert hall, a classroom, an art museum or a choral rehearsal as they were
to encounter it in a book. When cultural conservatives in the early 20th century sought
to claim the ballad as a straightforward and serious vehicle of German nationalism,
they ignored just how complex the ballad's relationship to the nation had been, and
what complexities within nationalism the form had managed to highlight through the
decades"
Sujet(s) : Ballades (musique instrumentale) -- Allemagne -- 19e siècle
Ballades (musique vocale) -- Allemagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-088549-6. - ISBN 0190885491 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47113797p
Notice n° :
FRBNF47113797
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. What the Ballad Knows ; The Ballad's Years of Travel : The Musenalmanach
for 1798, Orality, and the Ballad Form ; The Ballad, The Voice and the Echoes of
War ; Balladic Consciousness : The Ballad on the Opera Stage ; Memorizing Ballads
: Pedagogy, Tradition and the Open Secret ; The Ballad and the Family ; The Ballad
and Its Narratives ; The Ballad, the Public and Gendered Community ; The Ballad
and the Sea : Regionalism, Mourning and the Modern National Imaginary ; Epilogue.
The Ballad as Record.
