Martha Sprigge
Biographic Data
| ID | 2186545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Sprigge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprigge |
| SIGNATURE | SPRIGGE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hearing the Musical Resonances of Catastrophe
This collection of articles proposes a theoretical model for understanding and analysing the persistence of music making as a response to urban catastrophe. In the Introduction, the authors present an overview of recent humanistic literature on ruin aesthetics, positioning music as a vital yet overlooked dimension of aesthetic responses to disaster. The forum delves into the moral and ethical complexities of performing in ruins from second-centur…
Socialist Laments
Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949–1989), presenting a distorted vision of the national past. Official commemorative culture in East Germany celebrated a selective set of political heroes, seeming to leave no public space for mourning those who were excluded from the country’s founding myths. Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic examines the ro…
Dresden's Musical Ruins
In studies of memory politics in post-war Germany, the role that music played in responding to the Allied bombing of Dresden on 13–14 February 1945 has been overlooked. This article examines one of the first musical reactions to this traumatic event: Rudolf Mauersberger's mourning motet Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst ( How Deserted Lies the City , 1945). I argue that Mauersberger, who served as cantor of the world-famous Kreuzchor from 1930 until hi…
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic
Since the state archives of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) opened after German reunification, artistic life in East Germany has become a thriving field of interdisciplinary investigation that encompasses the study of cultural bureaucracy as well as investigations into East German literature, theater, film, and the plastic arts. Contributing to a growing body of scholarship on East German music on both sides of the Atlantic, Elaine Ke…
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Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic
Since the state archives of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) opened after German reunification, artistic life in East Germany has become a thriving field of interdisciplinary investigation that encompasses the study of cultural bureaucracy as well as investigations into East German literature, theater, film, and the plastic arts. Contributing to a growing body of scholarship on East German music on both sides of the Atlantic, Elaine Ke…
Dresden's Musical Ruins
In studies of memory politics in post-war Germany, the role that music played in responding to the Allied bombing of Dresden on 13–14 February 1945 has been overlooked. This article examines one of the first musical reactions to this traumatic event: Rudolf Mauersberger's mourning motet Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst ( How Deserted Lies the City , 1945). I argue that Mauersberger, who served as cantor of the world-famous Kreuzchor from 1930 until hi…
Socialist Laments
Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949–1989), presenting a distorted vision of the national past. Official commemorative culture in East Germany celebrated a selective set of political heroes, seeming to leave no public space for mourning those who were excluded from the country’s founding myths. Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic examines the ro…
Hearing the Musical Resonances of Catastrophe
This collection of articles proposes a theoretical model for understanding and analysing the persistence of music making as a response to urban catastrophe. In the Introduction, the authors present an overview of recent humanistic literature on ruin aesthetics, positioning music as a vital yet overlooked dimension of aesthetic responses to disaster. The forum delves into the moral and ethical complexities of performing in ruins from second-centur…
Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works)