After 1945, the purist -medium specificity- of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a -Verfransung, - or -fraying of boundaries, - between the arts. The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-80): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapter on Adorno's theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the Horspiel or radio play to electronic...
After 1945, the purist -medium specificity- of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this de...
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject, provides a much-needed corrective in the form of penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that have defined television in Germany. Encompassing developments from the dawn of the medium through the Cold War and post-reunification, this is an essential introduction to a rich and varied media...
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained at...
Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bourgeois humanist inheritance." The large numbers of professional orchestras in the GDR were touted as a proof of the country's culture. Classical music could be seen as the polar opposite of Americanizing pop culture and also of musical modernism, which was decried as formalist. Nevertheless, there were still musical modernists in the GDR, and classical music traditions were not only a prop of the...
Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the...
