Description: Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.
Brief description: Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Review Quotes: In offering such a rich conversation about the intersections between East German art music, political engagement, and identity construction, this volume has much to offer, not only to music scholars, but also to scholars of aesthetics, Germanists, and historians.-- "GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW"