Defining Deutschtum
Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna Defining Deutschtum offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in Liberal Vienna by examining music-critical writing about Carl Goldmark, Antoní...
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2026
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| description | Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna Defining Deutschtum offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in Liberal Vienna by examining music-critical writing about Carl Goldmark, Antonín Dvořák, and Bedřich Smetana, three notable composers of the day who were Austrian citizens but not ethnic Germans. Vienna’s critics are treated here as agents within the public sphere whose writing gave voice to distinct ideological positions on the question of who could be deemed “German” in the multinational Austrian state. Historian Pieter M. Judson’s perspective on Austro-German liberalism as an evolving but always exclusionary ideology provides a suggestive approach to interpreting this music-critical discourse. For Eduard Hanslick and Ludwig Speidel, German liberal nationalists who came of age around 1848, Germanness was theoretically available to any ambitious Bürger, including Jews and those of non-German nationality, who professed German cultural values. The national liberalism that characterized the work of the younger Theodor Helm was an outgrowth of the tensions between Germans and Czechs that first flared up in the 1860s. Later came a new generation of Wagnerian critics whose racialist antisemitism and irredentist German nationalism reflected the radical student politics of the 1880s. The critical reception of the three composers in question reveals a continuum of exclusivity, from a conception of Germanness rooted in social class and cultural elitism to one based in blood. The book thus offers insight into how educated German Austrians conceived of Germanness in music and understood their relationship to the “non-Germans” in their midst. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1729742026-03-01T05:48:38Z Defining Deutschtum Brodbeck, David Germanness Eduard Hanslick Ludwig Speidel Theodor Helm Carl Goldmark Antonín Dvořák Bedřich Smetana Liberal nationalism National liberalism German nationalism Introduction Viennese Critics and the “Habsburg Dilemma” thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVM History of music thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna Defining Deutschtum offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in Liberal Vienna by examining music-critical writing about Carl Goldmark, Antonín Dvořák, and Bedřich Smetana, three notable composers of the day who were Austrian citizens but not ethnic Germans. Vienna’s critics are treated here as agents within the public sphere whose writing gave voice to distinct ideological positions on the question of who could be deemed “German” in the multinational Austrian state. Historian Pieter M. Judson’s perspective on Austro-German liberalism as an evolving but always exclusionary ideology provides a suggestive approach to interpreting this music-critical discourse. For Eduard Hanslick and Ludwig Speidel, German liberal nationalists who came of age around 1848, Germanness was theoretically available to any ambitious Bürger, including Jews and those of non-German nationality, who professed German cultural values. The national liberalism that characterized the work of the younger Theodor Helm was an outgrowth of the tensions between Germans and Czechs that first flared up in the 1860s. Later came a new generation of Wagnerian critics whose racialist antisemitism and irredentist German nationalism reflected the radical student politics of the 1880s. The critical reception of the three composers in question reveals a continuum of exclusivity, from a conception of Germanness rooted in social class and cultural elitism to one based in blood. The book thus offers insight into how educated German Austrians conceived of Germanness in music and understood their relationship to the “non-Germans” in their midst. 2026-03-01T05:48:35Z 2026-03-01T05:48:35Z 2026-02-28T20:09:17Z 2014 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110267 9780199362707 9780199362714 9780199362721 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172974 eng New Cultural History of Music open access Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199362707.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199362707.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780199362707 9780199362714 9780199362721 392 New York, NY, United States open access |
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