How do Marxists mourn? In her moving, deeply researched study of commemoration in the former East Germany, Martha Sprigge answers this question through music
Martha Sprigge is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on musical expressions of mourning, grief, and remembrance in Germany after World War II. Her essays on musical commemorative practices in East Germany appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the journal Twentieth-Century Music, as well as in recent edited volumes on German music and
culture.