{"product_id":"changing-cultural-tastes-writers-and-the-popular-in-modern-germany-9781571815224","title":"Changing Cultural Tastes: Writers and the Popular","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eChanging Cultural Tastes\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Socialism and the strong influence from Great Britain and the United States are assessed in this cultural history of a changing nation and society. The period 1920-1980 is given special prominence, and the work of significant writers and artists such as Josef von Sternberg and Bertolt Brecht, Elfriede Jelinek and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Erwin Piscator and Heinrich Böll, is closely analysed. Their work has reflected changing tastes and, crucially, helped to make taste more pluralistic and democratic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…[an] enlightening and eminently readable study…a valuable addition to scholarship on German popular culture as well as German cultural history.”\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e·  German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This is a very good book…well, clearly, and forcefully written, in an attractive style with a touch of personal directness though with no sacrifice of academic rigour. The author’s enjoyment of popular culture in various forms is clear and infectious.”\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e·  Ritchie Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e, Oxford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Between ‘Volk’, ‘Kitsch’ and ‘Pop’: A Question of Vocabulary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Fatal Ambivalence of ‘Volk’\u003cbr\u003e \tDefining Tastes\u003cbr\u003e \tLooking Down on the Street\u003cbr\u003e \tExpressing ‘Free Time’\u003cbr\u003e \tFilling Cultural and Linguistic Vacuums\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Changing Values: The Intelligentsia, ‘Kultur’ and The People\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tChurch Roots\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTill Eulenspiegel\u003c\/i\u003e – An Early Modern Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e \tNew Channels of Public Information\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Origins of a New Science\u003cbr\u003e \tA Science of the Nation\u003cbr\u003e \tDecontaminating the Science of a People\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. The Weimar Republic and the Revolt against Good Taste and the Great Tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tTurning against Tradition\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Opera of the Street – \u003ci\u003eDie Dreigroschenoper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tOptical Words – Piscator’s Global Theatre\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Fatal Attractions of Low Culture – \u003ci\u003eDer Blaue Engel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tPopular Culture as a Panacea – \u003ci\u003eDer Steppenwolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Democratic Compassion for ‘Der kleine Mann’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tA Culture about Ordinary People\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Challenge to the German Novelist between 1919 and 1979\u003cbr\u003e \tPetit Bourgeois Powerlessness and its Consequences\u003cbr\u003e \tGender and Strength\u003cbr\u003e \tPower to the Popular Structures of Feeling\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. The Erotic and the Pornographic between High and Low\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Coming of Pop\u003cbr\u003e \tPost-War Roads to Freedom\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Transatlantic Battle against Taboos\u003cbr\u003e \tRolf Dieter Brinkmann’s New Credo\u003cbr\u003e \tA Marxist Meditation on the Mass Media – Elfriede Jelinek’s \u003ci\u003eDie Liebhaberinnen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tAn Ethnology of Subterranean Gay Hamburg – Hubert Fichte’s \u003ci\u003eDie Palette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. The Metropolitan Muse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Anglo-German Connection\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Rolling Stones, and London’s West End\u003cbr\u003e \tBetwixt Pop and Beat\u003cbr\u003e \tPiccadilly Circus – The Symbolic Site of Big City Life\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. ‘Wicked, Addicted, Free’: The Lure and Lore of the USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Cool War\u003cbr\u003e \tOld World versus New World\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Beat Generation and its Early Reception\u003cbr\u003e \tThe American-German Identity\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Americanised Imagination\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Moods and Morals in the Age of Popular Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tBeckett and After\u003cbr\u003e \tPost-Brechtian Theatre\u003cbr\u003e \tBauer’s Cultural Analysis\u003cbr\u003e \tAnatomical Cycles and Bad Tastes\u003cbr\u003e \tConclusion: New Ethical Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. Conclusion: The Democratisation and Pluralisation of Taste\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tGermany’s Political and Cultural Shifts\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Dialectic between Difficult and Simple Art\u003cbr\u003e \tPopular Culture and Alltagskultur : A Difference of Language?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041422639447,"sku":"9781571815224","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571815224.jpg?v=1750950214","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/changing-cultural-tastes-writers-and-the-popular-in-modern-germany-9781571815224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}