What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780190885496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Adrian Daub

Opis

In What the Ballad Knows, author Adrian Daub elucidates the complex relationship between ballads and nationalism in 19th century German culture.

Recenzje

Adrian Daub's brilliant synthesis of the many lives of ballads in German culture breathes new and more complex meaning into Eric Hobsbawm's and Terence Ranger's concept of invented traditions. Daub calls the ballad "poetry one lived with," and his subtle, lucid analysis of its many contexts-travel, family, the schoolroom, the public sphere, the national imaginary-sketches a great arc of continuity in German life. It is erudite, graceful, and wise-a major achievement. Celia Applegate, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Professor of German, Russian, and European Studies, Vanderbilt University

O autorze

Adrian Daub is Professor of German Literature and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and author of Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism (2012), Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture (OUP, 2014), and The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Germany (2020). He is co-author with Charles Kronengold of The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism (OUP, 2015).