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The Necessity of Music

Variations on a German Theme

By: Celia Applegate

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The Necessity of Music

Variations on a German Theme

By: Celia Applegate

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate’s original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. The Necessity of Music demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collective life.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487511604

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9781487511609

A Nation of Provincials

The German Idea of Heimat

By: Celia Applegate

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A Nation of Provincials

The German Idea of Heimat

By: Celia Applegate

At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat—the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to the cause of local preservation. Celia Applegate examines at both the national and regional levels the cultural meaning of Heimat and why it may be pivotal to the troubled and very timely question of German identity. The ideas and activities clustered around Heimat shed new light particularly on problems of modernization. Instead of viewing the Germans as a dangerously anti-modern people, Applegate argues that they used the cultivation of Heimat to ground an abstract nationalism in their attachment to familiar places and to reconcile the modern industrial and urban world with the rural landscapes and customs they admired. Primarily a characteristic of the middle classes, love of Heimat constituted an alternative vision of German unity to the familiar aggressive, militaristic one. The Heimat vision of Germany emphasized cultural diversity and defined German identity by its internal members rather than its external enemies. Applegate asks that we re-examine the continuities of German history from the perspective of the local places that made up Germany, rather than from that of prominent intellectuals or national policymakers. The local patriotism of Heimat activists emerges as an element of German culture that persisted across the great divides of 1918, 1933, and 1945. She also suggests that this attachment to a particular place is a feature of Europeans in general and is deserving of further attention. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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Univ of California Press

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0520372158

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9780520372153

Bach in Berlin

Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

By: Celia Applegate

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Bach in Berlin

Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

By: Celia Applegate

Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. The concert soon became the stuff of legend, sparking a revival of interest in and performance of Bach that has continued to this day. Mendelssohn's performance gave rise to the notion that recovering and performing Bach's music was somehow "national work." In 1865 Wagner would claim that Bach embodied "the history of the German spirit's inmost life." That the man most responsible for the revival of a masterwork of German Protestant culture was himself a converted Jew struck contemporaries as less remarkable than it does us today—a statement that embraces both the great achievements and the disasters of 150 years of German history. In this book, Celia Applegate asks why this particular performance crystallized the hitherto inchoate notion that music was central to Germans' collective identity. She begins with a wonderfully readable reconstruction of the performance itself and then moves back in time to pull apart the various cultural strands that would come together that afternoon in the Singakademie. The author investigates the role played by intellectuals, journalists, and amateur musicians (she is one herself) in developing the notion that Germans were "the people of music." Applegate assesses the impact on music's cultural place of the renewal of German Protestantism, historicism, the mania for collecting and restoring, and romanticism. In her conclusion, she looks at the subsequent careers of her protagonists and the lasting reverberations of the 1829 performance itself.

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Cornell University Press

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0801455820

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9780801455827

The Necessity of Music

Variations on a German Theme

By: Celia Applegate

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The Necessity of Music

Variations on a German Theme

By: Celia Applegate

Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Places -- 1 How German Is It? -- 2 Music in Place -- 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations -- 4 Music at the Fairs -- Part II: People -- 5 Mendelssohn on the Road -- 6 A.B. Marx's Cosmopolitan Nationalism -- 7 Schumann's German Nation -- 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms's Hamburg -- Part III: Public and Private -- 9 What Difference Does a Nation Make? -- 10 Men with Trombones -- 11 Women's Wagner -- 12 Hausmusik in the Third Reich -- 13 To Be or Not to Be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's Films -- 14 Saving Music -- Notes -- Index

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University of Toronto Press

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1487520484

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9781487520489

Doing Business Electronically

a global perspective of electronic commerce : with 34 figures

By: Celia T. Romm

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Doing Business Electronically

a global perspective of electronic commerce : with 34 figures

By: Celia T. Romm

This volume presents a global perspective on the major areas of electronic commerce, including (but not limited to) those related to the World Wide Web. It does not focus on technical issues, but instead examines the commercial, social and cultural aspects of electronic commerce, including buyer-seller relationships, consumer decision making, information strategy, EDI, electronic banking, information systems for electronic banking, and channel integration.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540761594

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For Home and Country

World War I Propaganda on the Home Front

By: Celia M. Kingsbury

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For Home and Country

World War I Propaganda on the Home Front

By: Celia M. Kingsbury

For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I. Cookbooks, popular magazines, romance novels, and government food agencies targeted women in their homes, especially their kitchens, pressuring them to change their domestic habits. Children were also taught to fear the enemy and support the war through propaganda in the form of toys, games, and books. And when women and children were not the recipients of propaganda, they were often used in propaganda to target men. By examining a diverse collection of literary texts, songs, posters, and toys, Celia Malone Kingsbury reveals how these pervasive materials were used to fight the war's cultural battle.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803228325

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9780803228320

Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank

A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom

By: Celia Rivenbark

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Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank

A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom

By: Celia Rivenbark

Celia Rivenbark's essays about life in today's South are like caramel popcorn---sweet, salty, and utterly irresistible Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover: * How to get your kid into a character breakfast at Disneyworld (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy) * Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don't hate them because they're beautiful when there are so many other reasons to hate them) * EBay addiction and why "It ain't worth having if it ain't on eBay" (Whoa! Is that Willie Nelson's face in your grits?) * Why today's children's clothes make six-year-olds look like Vegas showgirls with an abundance of anger issues * And so much more! Rivenbark is an intrepid explorer and acid commentator on the land south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429918810

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9781429918817

Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work

An Empirically Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment

By: Mo Yee Lee,Celia C. H. Y. Chan,Cecilia L. W. Chan,Siu-Man Ng,Pamela P. Y. Leung

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Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work

An Empirically Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment

By: Mo Yee Lee,Celia C. H. Y. Chan,Cecilia L. W. Chan,Siu-Man Ng,Pamela P. Y. Leung

Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work strongly connects Western therapeutic techniques with Eastern philosophy and practices, while also providing a comprehensive and pragmatic agenda for social work, and mental health professionals. The second edition represents a major revision from the original book, featuring numerous case studies and a robust companion website including demonstration videos and reproducible client handouts.

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Oxford University Press

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0190458518

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Bach in Berlin

Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

By: Celia Applegate

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Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

By: Celia Applegate

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Cornell University Press

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0801455820

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Clothes Lines

By: Celia H. Miles,Nancy Dillingham

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Clothes Lines

By: Celia H. Miles,Nancy Dillingham

An anthology of stories, poems, essays and memoirs.

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1597123552

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The Necessity of Music

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Doing Business Electronically

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