Emphasizing that the works in question--selections from radio, film music, and electronic music--in some ways negate art, they are nevertheless art works themselves. The author offers close readings (
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitio
Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bou