Music and German national identity / edited by Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Germans as the "people of music" : genealogy of an identity / Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter -- Reconstructing ideal types of the "German" in music / Bernd Sponheuer -- Einheit--Freiheit--Vaterland : intimations of utopia in Robert Schumann's late choral music / John Daverio -- Wagner's Die Meistersinger as national opera (1868-1945) / Thomas S. Grey -- Landscape--region--nation--Reich : German folk song in the nexus of national identity / Philip V. Bohlman -- Kein schöner Land : the Spielschar Ekkehard and the struggle to define German national identity in the Weimar Republic / Bruce Campbell -- Hosanna or "Hilf, o Herr uns" : national identity, the German Christian movement, and the "dejudaization" of sacred music in the Third Reich / Doris L. Bergen -- National and Universal : Thomas Mann and the paradox of "German" music / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- Culture, society, and politics in the cosmos of "Hans Pfitzner the German" / Michael H. Kater -- "Für eine neue deutsche Nationaloper" : opera in the discourses of unification and legitimation in the German Democratic Republic / Joy Haslam Calico -- Darmstadt, postwar experimentation, and the West German search for a new musical identity / Gesa Kordes -- American jazz in the German Cold War / Uta G. Poiger -- Postwar German popular music : Americanization, the Cold War, and the post-Nazi Heimat / Edward Larkey -- On the history of the "Deutschlandlied" / Jost Hermand -- Ethnicity and musical identity in the Czech lands : a group of vignettes / Bruno Nettl -- "Is that not something for Simplissimus?!" the belief in musical superiority / Albrecht Riethmul̈ler.