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Professor Celia Applegate
2022 George L. Mosse Lectures
Music and Work
Lecture 1: Working at Music: The "Work-Day" Dilemma in Modern German Musical Culture
Lecture 2: Music as Work: The Musical Profession in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lecture 3: Music at Work: Singing and Self-Organization in the Work Place
5 December 2022
Chair: Aya Elyada
18:00
Maiersdorf Faculty Club and Conference Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History
Lecture abstract:
Johan Huizinga wrote in Homo Ludens (1938) that “culture arises in the form of play,” but what was the work that went into the play of culture, especially musical culture? The first lecture will consider the efforts of 19th- and 20th-century cultural historians and musicologists, mostly German, to explain the work-play dilemma in the development of music-making. What functions did they think music fulfilled? What work did it do in society? How did it fit into Germans' self-image as hard workers?
Speaker bio:
Professor Celia Applegate studies the culture, society, and politics of modern Germany, with particular interest in the history of music, nationalism, and national identity. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley, 1990), the co-editor (with musicologist Pamela Potter) of Music and German National Identity (Chicago, 2000), the author of Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the St. Matthew Passion (Cornell, 2005), winner of the DAAD/GSA Book Prize, and of The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme (Toronto, 2017). She is currently working on comprehensive interpretation of musical life in Germany from the 17th century to the present, titled "Music and the Germans: A History." She is Past President of the German Studies Association, Past President of the Central European History Society, and incoming chair of the AHA’s Modern European section.
Professor Applegate teaches courses on modern European politics, society, and culture; the history of the Holocaust; and the history of European nationalism and ethnic conflicts.
Learn more about the George L. Mosse Program: https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/
This series of Jerusalem Mosse Lectures was originally scheduled for December 2020 but was postponed two years due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Professor Celia Applegate
2022 George L. Mosse Lectures
Music and Work
Lecture 1: Working at Music: The "Work-Day" Dilemma in Modern German Musical Culture
Lecture 2: Music as Work: The Musical Profession in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lecture 3: Music at Work: Singing and Self-Organization in the Work Place
5 December 2022
Chair: Aya Elyada
18:00
Maiersdorf Faculty Club and Conference Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History
Lecture abstract:
Johan Huizinga wrote in Homo Ludens (1938) that “culture arises in the form of play,” but what was the work that went into the play of culture, especially musical culture? The first lecture will consider the efforts of 19th- and 20th-century cultural historians and musicologists, mostly German, to explain the work-play dilemma in the development of music-making. What functions did they think music fulfilled? What work did it do in society? How did it fit into Germans' self-image as hard workers?
Speaker bio:
Professor Celia Applegate studies the culture, society, and politics of modern Germany, with particular interest in the history of music, nationalism, and national identity. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley, 1990), the co-editor (with musicologist Pamela Potter) of Music and German National Identity (Chicago, 2000), the author of Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the St. Matthew Passion (Cornell, 2005), winner of the DAAD/GSA Book Prize, and of The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme (Toronto, 2017). She is currently working on comprehensive interpretation of musical life in Germany from the 17th century to the present, titled "Music and the Germans: A History." She is Past President of the German Studies Association, Past President of the Central European History Society, and incoming chair of the AHA’s Modern European section.
Professor Applegate teaches courses on modern European politics, society, and culture; the history of the Holocaust; and the history of European nationalism and ethnic conflicts.
Learn more about the George L. Mosse Program: https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/
This series of Jerusalem Mosse Lectures was originally scheduled for December 2020 but was postponed two years due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
