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Songs for a Revolution
The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany
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Eckhard John
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With contributions by:
Eckhard John
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
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Makes available twenty-two protest songs of the period up to and including the 1848 Revolution in Germany along with a reception history of the songs through their revival after 1945.
The socially volatile period of the Vormärz (1830-1848) and the 1848 Revolution in Germany produced a wealth of political protest song. Songs for a Revolution makes available twenty-two prominent protest songs from that time, both lyrics (in German and English) and melodies. It also chronicles the songs' reception: suppressed after the revolution, they fell into obscurity, despite intermittent revivals by the workers' movement and later in the Weimar Republic, until they were appropriated as democratic cultural heritage by the folk and political song movements of East and West Germany after 1945.
The songs reflect the new, oppositional political consciousness that emerged during the post-1830 period of restoration and led to the revolution. The book makes use of broadsides, songbooks, newspaper reports, and manuscripts to document the songs' transmission and shed light on the milieus in which they circulated. It also demonstrates how the appropriation of these songs by the German Liedermacher and folk scene shaped today's cultural memory of the 1848 period. It illuminates the functioning of political ideology in these reception processes, which in turn have given rise to myths that have influenced the discourse on the 1848 songs.
ECKHARD JOHN is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg. DAVID ROBB is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queens University Belfast.
The socially volatile period of the Vormärz (1830-1848) and the 1848 Revolution in Germany produced a wealth of political protest song. Songs for a Revolution makes available twenty-two prominent protest songs from that time, both lyrics (in German and English) and melodies. It also chronicles the songs' reception: suppressed after the revolution, they fell into obscurity, despite intermittent revivals by the workers' movement and later in the Weimar Republic, until they were appropriated as democratic cultural heritage by the folk and political song movements of East and West Germany after 1945.
The songs reflect the new, oppositional political consciousness that emerged during the post-1830 period of restoration and led to the revolution. The book makes use of broadsides, songbooks, newspaper reports, and manuscripts to document the songs' transmission and shed light on the milieus in which they circulated. It also demonstrates how the appropriation of these songs by the German Liedermacher and folk scene shaped today's cultural memory of the 1848 period. It illuminates the functioning of political ideology in these reception processes, which in turn have given rise to myths that have influenced the discourse on the 1848 songs.
ECKHARD JOHN is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg. DAVID ROBB is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queens University Belfast.
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Contributor: Eckhard John
ECKHARD JOHN is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg.
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Contributor: David G Robb
DAVID ROBB is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queens University Belfast.
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Contributor: Eckhard John
ECKHARD JOHN is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg.
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Contributor: David G Robb
DAVID ROBB is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queens University Belfast.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: The Emergence of Political Song, 1830–48
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Part I Before 1848: The Vormärz
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Part II 1848–49
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Part III 1848 in Memory
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Conclusion: The Making of Tradition; The Protest Songs of 1848 in the German Folk Revival
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Bibliography
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Discography
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Index of Names and Terms
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Index of Song Titles
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eBook published on:
February 19, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781787448629
Original publisher:
Camden House
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eBook ISBN:
9781787448629
Keywords for this book
Songs; revolution; 1848; protest song tradition; Germany; Vormärz; political protest; lyrics; melodies; reception history; workers' movement; Weimar Republic; democratic cultural heritage; East Germany; West Germany; political consciousness; restoration; cultural memory; Liedermacher; folk scene.
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
