Brecht for Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4369854 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anicia Chung Timberlake, Anicia Timberlake (0000-0002-5520-9069, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-60 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2015.132.1.30 |
| OpenAlex | W2305576130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
East German music educators developed new children's operas on the model of Brechtian Lehrstücke to teach critical, "dialectical" thinking, a skill they considered essential for young socialists. This essay examines how the operas offered an alternative political education to the GDR's official program of state-loyal patriotism and explores the conflicts that arose when Brecht's theories of gestus and estrangement came into contact with the fairy tale tradition long thought to be the center of German children's culture
Aesthetics · Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · German · Literature · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · German History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |