Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Music and/as Politics in the German Context

pp 1-16

Part I - Appropriations and Misappropriations

pp 17-18

Martin Luther in Nineteenth-Century Music, Literature, and Politics

pp 19-34

The 1848 Revolutionary Lyrics of Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Herwegh, and Freiligrath in the German Folk Song Movement

pp 35-54

“Der Kampf geht weiter”: The Politics of Cover Versions in German Punk Rock

pp 55-70

Son of Kraut and an Old Herero? The Politics of German Pop Musical Memory around 1990

pp 71-88

Part II - The Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Opera and Film

pp 89-90

Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung: Opera as Political Defiance

pp 91-114

“Volk eilt herzu”: Beethoven’s Opera Fidelio in Dresden on October 7 and 8, 1989, and Its Ambivalent Afterlife

pp 115-132

Soundtracks of the Holocaust in East and West German Cinema: Jakob der Lügner (1974) and Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977)

pp 133-150

Part III - The Uses and Abuses of Music and Politics

pp 151-152

Political Ideology, Authentic Performance, and the Romantic Metaphysics of Music: The Case of the Pianist Elly Ney

pp 153-168

The Spirits of Utopia and of Disenchantment: Ernst Bloch, Hope, and Music in the Age of Post-Truth

pp 169-186

Notes on the Contributors

pp 187-189