Voices of ambiguity – The GDR folk music revival movement (1976–1990): exploring lived musical experience and post-war German folk music discourses

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Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-03 DOI:10.1080/04308778.2018.1501956

Felix Morgenstern

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Following the ideological co-option of German folk music by the Nazi regime during the Third Reich (1933–1945), the genre’s performative practice was highly marginalized. Revivalists in both German post-war states initially recast German folk music in a recourse to the soundscape and song themes of Irish vernacular music, before reconnecting with a 19th century oppositional German folk song repertoire. In the GDR, songs of the 1848 Revolution were curated as the state’s ‘democratic’ cultural heritage and could not be readily censored. This allowed artists to perform historical folk songs to metaphorically critique circumstances existing in East Germany. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted among former GDR folk musicians, this paper explores their encounters in relation to established post-war German folk music discourses on the relationship between artists and state authorities. Concrete analysis of a 19th century emigration song uncovers how folk musicians could subversively pass comment on state-imposed travel restrictions to the West.

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模糊的声音——民主德国民间音乐复兴运动（1976-1990）：探索生活的音乐体验和战后德国民间音乐话语

摘要在第三帝国时期（1933-1945）纳粹政权对德国民间音乐进行意识形态上的选择之后，该流派的表演实践被高度边缘化。德国战后两个国家的复兴主义者最初都借鉴爱尔兰本土音乐的音景和歌曲主题，重新塑造了德国民间音乐，然后与19世纪对立的德国民歌曲目重新联系。在民主德国，1848年革命的歌曲被策划为国家的“民主”文化遗产，不容易被审查。这使得艺术家们可以表演历史民歌来隐喻性地批判东德的现状。本文以前德意志民主共和国民间音乐家的实地调查为基础，探讨了他们与战后德国民间音乐中关于艺术家与国家当局关系的话语的相遇。对一首19世纪移民歌曲的具体分析揭示了民间音乐家如何颠覆性地对国家实施的前往西方的旅行限制发表评论。

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期刊介绍： Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies is a journal devoted to the study of all aspects of traditional ways of life in Great Britain and Ireland. The journal publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed research in the form of unsolicited articles, solicited papers (which are usually selected from those read at the Society"s annual conference) and of members" papers (which are usually short reports of work in progress). Work published in Folk Life may include, for example, papers dealing with the traditional ways of life of other countries and regions, which may be compared to or contrasted with those of Great Britain and Ireland.