Title What the ballad knows : the ballad genre, memory culture, and German nationalism / Adrian Daub

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series New cultural history of music series New cultural history of music. Contents Introduction. What the Ballad Knows -- The Ballad's Years of Travel : The Musenalmanach for 1798, Orality, and the Ballad Form -- The Ballad, The Voice and the Echoes of War -- Balladic Consciousness : The Ballad on the Opera Stage -- Memorizing Ballads : Pedagogy, Tradition and the Open Secret -- The Ballad and the Family -- The Ballad and Its Narratives -- The Ballad, the Public and Gendered Community -- The Ballad and the Sea : Regionalism, Mourning and the Modern National Imaginary -- Epilogue. The Ballad as Record Summary "The German ballad was an unusual poetic genre: supposedly inspired by a treasure trove of authorless poems that had for centuries circulated among the common people, the ballad attained popularity in the form of deeply ironic poems written by some of Germany's most canonic authors. Supposedly a celebration of the oral culture of the German Volk, the ballad instead circulated through the emerging channels of nineteenth century culture industry: from anthologies and picture books via the exploding market for song settings, from the opera house to the vaudeville stage, the ballad hewed to its medieval pretence while sounding surprisingly modern. This book traces the strange trajectory of this poetic genre from its origins in the late 18th century to its political appropriations in the 20th. Throughout, the ballad and its path across a wide variety of milieus and media told a surprising and contradictory story of the German nation. What The Ballad Knows shows that, even though the ballad arrived in Germany as a literary genre, it very quickly came to make its home in between different genres and even different media - to the point that laypeople were as likely to encounter it in a concert hall, a classroom, an art museum or a choral rehearsal as they were to encounter it in a book. When cultural conservatives in the early 20th century sought to claim the ballad as a straightforward and serious vehicle of German nationalism, they ignored just how complex the ballad's relationship to the nation had been, and what complexities within nationalism the form had managed to highlight through the decades"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on July 21, 2023) Subject Ballads, German -- History and criticism National characteristics, German, in literature. Ballads, German National characteristics, German, in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190885502 0190885505 9780190885526 0190885521

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