Tobias Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut London |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9004-5447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Yesterday
Yesterday
The Time of Politics, the Politics of Time, and Politicized Time
Time is so deeply interwoven with all aspects of politics that its centrality to the political is frequently overlooked. For one, politics has its own times and rhythms. Secondly, time can be an object and an instrument of politics. Thirdly, temporal attributes are used not only to differentiate basic political principles but also to legitimize or delegitimize politics. Finally, politics aims at realizing futures in the present or preventing them…
Only Rock’n’Roll
Rock’n’Roll erscheint traditionell oft rebellisch, subversiv und progressiv konnotiert. Solche Zuschreibungen ignorieren jedoch nicht nur Subgenres wie den Rechtsrock, sondern auch die Kritik, die dem Mainstream-Rock schon seit seinen Anfängen vorwarf, den gesellschaftlichen Status quo eher abzubilden und zu stützten als in Frage zu stellen. Rock’n’Roll also ein konservatives Genre? Was können Begriffe wie konservativ und progressiv überhaupt bed…
Sophie Schönberger, Was soll zurück? Die Restitution von Kulturgütern im Zeitalter der Nostalgie. München, Beck 2021; Barbara Cassin, Nostalgie. Wann sind wir wirklich zuhause? Berlin, Suhrkamp 2021
Article Sophie Schönberger, Was soll zurück? Die Restitution von Kulturgütern im Zeitalter der Nostalgie. München, Beck 2021; Barbara Cassin, Nostalgie. Wann sind wir wirklich zuhause? Berlin, Suhrkamp 2021 was published on October 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 2)
Kulturen des Konservativen in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte – das Beispiel Großbritannien
Article Kulturen des Konservativen in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte – das Beispiel Großbritannien was published on January 1, 2022 in the journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (volume 70, issue 1)
Writing Europe into British cultural history
This special issue aims to write Europe into the history of British culture—popular culture, to be exact—in the twentieth century. Too often British pop culture has been viewed either through the lens of national identity, in relation to American culture or with an eye to influences from other parts of the English-speaking world, usually from the former Empire. By contrast, contacts, exchanges and transfers between Britain and continental Europe …
The Cambridge Companion to Operetta
Those whose thoughts of musical theatre are dominated by the Broadway musical will find this book a revelation. From the 1850s to the early 1930s, when urban theatres sought to mount glamorous musical entertainment, it was to operetta that they turned. It was a form of musical theatre that crossed national borders with ease and was adored by audiences around the world. This collection of essays by an array of international scholars examines the k…
The de-industrializing city in the UK and Germany
When the Coventry-based band The Specials released their single 'Ghost Town' in June 1981, they appeared to be giving stark expression to a broader sense of crisis that characterized Britain's urban environment in the early Thatcher years.The song's invocation of urban decay, social dislocation and violence, juxtaposed to a romanticized past of 'good old days in a de boomtown', struck a chord with contemporary audiences. 1It provided a fitting so…
The Meanings of Nostalgia
Nostalgia has become a new master narrative both in public discourse and academic research, serving as an explanation for trends in fields as different as popular culture, fashion, technology, and politics. This essay criticizes the wide‐ranging use of the term. It argues that nostalgia often does not adequately describe the diverse uses of the past to which it is applied. It does this by historicizing the nostalgia discourse with particular emph…
Labour's Nostalgia
Nostalgia has become a pervasive term in politics. Both Brexit and Trump with their demands to ‘Take Back Control’ and ‘Make America Great Again’ have been described as nostalgic projects, driven by outmoded and anachronistic values and ideas. For obvious reasons, right-wing and conservative parties and causes are more prone to accusations of nostalgia than left-wing ones, who on first glance at least seem to look to the future rather than the pa…
Grandhotels
Grand hotels are as much a marker of a city’s claim to world city status as its landmarks and sights, the height of its skyscrapers or the quality of its opera. The Waldorf Astoria in New York, the Savoy in London, the Ritz in Paris, the Adlon in Berlin are near mythical places, their splendour enhanced by the fact that most of us will never enjoy it, reserved as they are for the upper crust, the jet set, the high society. Passing them, we may dr…
Television’s Moment
We are currently living in a golden age of television. Whatever your taste—crime, soap, period drama, fantasy, sci-fi—there is an endless supply of programmes to choose from. Television occupies an important space in our lives: on the internet, in newspapers and conversations. Given its cultural prevalence it is not easy to imagine a time when people could only choose between three or four channels. Yet television was perhaps even more influentia…
Fashioning Memory
Anne Eriksen. From Antiquities to Heritage
Die Tausend Freuden der Metropole
Entertaining the Empire
This article argues that theatre in colonial India - both in the form of touring companies and amateur dramatics - offered much more than mere entertainment: first, it was an important social space where the British diaspora constituted itself as a community. Secondly, it served as a lifeline to the home country. By watching theatrical performances either brought to them straight from London or which they performed themselves, colonial Britons fe…
Popular Musical Theatre, Cultural Transfer, Modernities
Between the years 1890 to 1930 a large number of popular musical theatre shows-musical comedies and operettas-were exchanged between London and Berlin. This essay represents the first attempt by scholars to examine this cultural practice. It outlines the implications of cultural transfer and exchange in terms of theatre history generally and the more detailed mechanics of show "translation." Using the figure of adaptation to explore cultural rela…
The Time of Politics, the Politics of Time, and Politicized Time
Time is so deeply interwoven with all aspects of politics that its centrality to the political is frequently overlooked. For one, politics has its own times and rhythms. Secondly, time can be an object and an instrument of politics. Thirdly, temporal attributes are used not only to differentiate basic political principles but also to legitimize or delegitimize politics. Finally, politics aims at realizing futures in the present or preventing them…
Entertaining the Empire
This article argues that theatre in colonial India - both in the form of touring companies and amateur dramatics - offered much more than mere entertainment: first, it was an important social space where the British diaspora constituted itself as a community. Secondly, it served as a lifeline to the home country. By watching theatrical performances either brought to them straight from London or which they performed themselves, colonial Britons fe…
The Meanings of Nostalgia
Nostalgia has become a new master narrative both in public discourse and academic research, serving as an explanation for trends in fields as different as popular culture, fashion, technology, and politics. This essay criticizes the wide‐ranging use of the term. It argues that nostalgia often does not adequately describe the diverse uses of the past to which it is applied. It does this by historicizing the nostalgia discourse with particular emph…
The de-industrializing city in the UK and Germany
When the Coventry-based band The Specials released their single 'Ghost Town' in June 1981, they appeared to be giving stark expression to a broader sense of crisis that characterized Britain's urban environment in the early Thatcher years.The song's invocation of urban decay, social dislocation and violence, juxtaposed to a romanticized past of 'good old days in a de boomtown', struck a chord with contemporary audiences. 1It provided a fitting so…
Popular Musical Theatre, Cultural Transfer, Modernities
Between the years 1890 to 1930 a large number of popular musical theatre shows-musical comedies and operettas-were exchanged between London and Berlin. This essay represents the first attempt by scholars to examine this cultural practice. It outlines the implications of cultural transfer and exchange in terms of theatre history generally and the more detailed mechanics of show "translation." Using the figure of adaptation to explore cultural rela…
Die Tausend Freuden der Metropole
Entertaining the Empire
This article argues that theatre in colonial India - both in the form of touring companies and amateur dramatics - offered much more than mere entertainment: first, it was an important social space where the British diaspora constituted itself as a community. Secondly, it served as a lifeline to the home country. By watching theatrical performances either brought to them straight from London or which they performed themselves, colonial Britons fe…
Anne Eriksen. From Antiquities to Heritage
Fashioning Memory
Grandhotels
Grand hotels are as much a marker of a city’s claim to world city status as its landmarks and sights, the height of its skyscrapers or the quality of its opera. The Waldorf Astoria in New York, the Savoy in London, the Ritz in Paris, the Adlon in Berlin are near mythical places, their splendour enhanced by the fact that most of us will never enjoy it, reserved as they are for the upper crust, the jet set, the high society. Passing them, we may dr…
Television’s Moment
We are currently living in a golden age of television. Whatever your taste—crime, soap, period drama, fantasy, sci-fi—there is an endless supply of programmes to choose from. Television occupies an important space in our lives: on the internet, in newspapers and conversations. Given its cultural prevalence it is not easy to imagine a time when people could only choose between three or four channels. Yet television was perhaps even more influentia…
The Meanings of Nostalgia
Nostalgia has become a new master narrative both in public discourse and academic research, serving as an explanation for trends in fields as different as popular culture, fashion, technology, and politics. This essay criticizes the wide‐ranging use of the term. It argues that nostalgia often does not adequately describe the diverse uses of the past to which it is applied. It does this by historicizing the nostalgia discourse with particular emph…
Labour's Nostalgia
Nostalgia has become a pervasive term in politics. Both Brexit and Trump with their demands to ‘Take Back Control’ and ‘Make America Great Again’ have been described as nostalgic projects, driven by outmoded and anachronistic values and ideas. For obvious reasons, right-wing and conservative parties and causes are more prone to accusations of nostalgia than left-wing ones, who on first glance at least seem to look to the future rather than the pa…
The Cambridge Companion to Operetta
Those whose thoughts of musical theatre are dominated by the Broadway musical will find this book a revelation. From the 1850s to the early 1930s, when urban theatres sought to mount glamorous musical entertainment, it was to operetta that they turned. It was a form of musical theatre that crossed national borders with ease and was adored by audiences around the world. This collection of essays by an array of international scholars examines the k…
The de-industrializing city in the UK and Germany
When the Coventry-based band The Specials released their single 'Ghost Town' in June 1981, they appeared to be giving stark expression to a broader sense of crisis that characterized Britain's urban environment in the early Thatcher years.The song's invocation of urban decay, social dislocation and violence, juxtaposed to a romanticized past of 'good old days in a de boomtown', struck a chord with contemporary audiences. 1It provided a fitting so…
Kulturen des Konservativen in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte – das Beispiel Großbritannien
Article Kulturen des Konservativen in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte – das Beispiel Großbritannien was published on January 1, 2022 in the journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (volume 70, issue 1)
Writing Europe into British cultural history
This special issue aims to write Europe into the history of British culture—popular culture, to be exact—in the twentieth century. Too often British pop culture has been viewed either through the lens of national identity, in relation to American culture or with an eye to influences from other parts of the English-speaking world, usually from the former Empire. By contrast, contacts, exchanges and transfers between Britain and continental Europe …
Only Rock’n’Roll
Rock’n’Roll erscheint traditionell oft rebellisch, subversiv und progressiv konnotiert. Solche Zuschreibungen ignorieren jedoch nicht nur Subgenres wie den Rechtsrock, sondern auch die Kritik, die dem Mainstream-Rock schon seit seinen Anfängen vorwarf, den gesellschaftlichen Status quo eher abzubilden und zu stützten als in Frage zu stellen. Rock’n’Roll also ein konservatives Genre? Was können Begriffe wie konservativ und progressiv überhaupt bed…
Sophie Schönberger, Was soll zurück? Die Restitution von Kulturgütern im Zeitalter der Nostalgie. München, Beck 2021; Barbara Cassin, Nostalgie. Wann sind wir wirklich zuhause? Berlin, Suhrkamp 2021
Article Sophie Schönberger, Was soll zurück? Die Restitution von Kulturgütern im Zeitalter der Nostalgie. München, Beck 2021; Barbara Cassin, Nostalgie. Wann sind wir wirklich zuhause? Berlin, Suhrkamp 2021 was published on October 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 2)
Yesterday
Yesterday
The Time of Politics, the Politics of Time, and Politicized Time
Time is so deeply interwoven with all aspects of politics that its centrality to the political is frequently overlooked. For one, politics has its own times and rhythms. Secondly, time can be an object and an instrument of politics. Thirdly, temporal attributes are used not only to differentiate basic political principles but also to legitimize or delegitimize politics. Finally, politics aims at realizing futures in the present or preventing them…
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