Melanie Schiller

Soundtracking Germany

Popular Music and National Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.

Produktdetails

• Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781786615961
• ISBN-10: 1786615967
• Artikelnr.: 58298132

Autorenporträt

Melanie Schiller is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Made in Germany
1. The Natives of Trizonesia [Germanness Without a Nation]
2. The Sound of Uncanny Silence [Beat, The Silent Nation and International Imaginaries]
3. Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn [Kraftwerk and the Open-Ended Narrative of the Nation]
4. Hitler on the Dance Floor [Queering the Nation]
5. Most German of the Arts? [Techno and the Celebration of the Nation]
Conclusion: Another Time of Writing