| Contents |
Part one. Allied re-education, 1945-1949. Music and regeneration -- Denazification -- Anti-fascism and music -- 'Cultural freedom' or 'Contemporary realism'? -- Part two. New musical cultures, 1949-1955. Bach 'Shenanigans' -- Music and state in Germany: 1950-1955 -- Dance music: the enemy within? -- Collaboration, confrontation, and infiltration -- Conclusion: when music mattered. |
| Abstract |
The political control of music in the Third Reich has been analyzed from several perspectives, and with ever increasing sophistication. However, music in Germany after 1945 has not received anything like the same treatment. Rather, there is an assumption that two separate musical cultures emerged in East and West alongside the division of Germany into two states with differing economic and political systems. There is a widely accepted view of music in West Germany as 'free', and in the East subject to party control. Toby Thacker challenges these assumptions, asking how and why music was controlled in Germany under Allied Occupation from 1945-49, and in the early years of 'semi-sovereignty' between 1949 and 1955. The 're-education' of Germany after the Hitler years was a unique historical experiment and the place of music within this is explored here for the first time. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006005357 |
| ISBN | 0754653463 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754653462 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
