Recomposing German Music

Recomposing German Music
  • Author: Elizabeth Janik
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9789004146617
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 354
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This book is a social history of musical life in Berlin; it investigates the tangled relationship between music and politics in 20th-century Germany, emphasizing the division of Berlin's musical community between east and west in the early Cold War era.

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