The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

municative,orcompensatoryfunctionsand, without further qualification, be praised for itsradicalizing impact on the workingclass ...

performedmore problematic compensatoryfunctions. Choral leaders frequently argued over the competing demands of artistic quality ...

on musicaleducation in the bourgeois public sphere profoundlyinfluenced the conception of the workers’chorus asamodel of communi ...

competingperspectivesonthe socialist heritageduringthe ColdWar, GDR mu- sicologists have claimed the history of workers’ choral ...

onistic“we,”GeorgWeerth (18 22 – 1856) recounts shared experiences of starva- tion before he endswith an open political threat:“ ...

vised and expandededitions also register changingviews of the proletariat’srole in the competing political projects of revolutio ...

to declare his lovetothe simple shirt and, by extension, his class and conclude: “Thus, whether torn or mended,/whether oilyorso ...

The even more famous“Arbeiter-Marseillaise”(“Workers’Marseillaise”), with lyrics byJacobAudorf (1834–1898), was originallywritte ...

ture of singingand its prefigurative function in the making of class identifica- tions. In the context of nineteenth-century Ger ...

productive reception of Schiller’sideas about aesthetic education is most evident in the politicization of music performance, st ...

sheet music for men’s, women’s, andmixedchoruses.²⁸Through the inclusion of mass choruses in theatrical performances,choral sing ...

slave,ofindividual and society,and hence of egoism [i.e., capitalism] and social- ism. In this sensebourgeoismeansanemphasis on ...

resented musicallythrough harmonyordisharmony, in simple unison folksong, or do they call for polyphonic composition principles? ...

workers’choral societies, and despite sharp political divisions over theirrela- tionship to earlier discourses of folk and natio ...

Chapter 5 The Proletarian Prometheus and Socialist Allegory Onlythroughthe death of the old have new lineagesachieved victory. H ...

Prometheus figure made possible theappropriation of the bourgeois narrative of the self-liberation of man through labor by,and f ...

The elevated status of Prometheus as the patron saint of the proletariatrais- es anumber of basic questions thatare relevant to ...

and,during the heydays of scientific socialism, sawworld history as an objective process? How is the self-presentation of the SP ...

izedversions of the arts and, by extension, of socialist utopias often takeafe- male form, includinginallegoricalrepresentations ...

andKautsky,illustrated journals such asSüddeutscher PostillonandDerWahre Jacobused irreverent humor and sharp wit to reach large ...