Red Song
Social Democratic Music and Radicalism at the End of the Weimar Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Bodek (College of Charleston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-227 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938900011651 |
| OpenAlex | W2040037531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Germany's interwar Social Democratic movement was anything but the monolithic structure often presented in the literature. Indeed, the standard teleology—which portrays the movement as conservative and petit bourgeois, doing its best to fend off Nazism, but ultimately not up to the task—obscures more than it illuminates. It imposes a top-down frame on the Social Democratic Party (SPD), that characterizes it and its affiliates as an undifferentiated mass, making a nuanced analysis difficult. As is true of most political movements, interwar German Social Democracy presented multiple faces to the world. While its core was a political party that worked to win elections, the SPD also formed the heart of an alternative culture, one that allowed its largely working-class membership to take part in cultural and social functions, as well as in political meetings to express class solidarity
Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Petite bourgeoisie · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Social Democratic Party · Social movement · Sociology · Solidarity · Weimar Republic · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |