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Sideways nostalgia, adopted republicanism and the performance of Irish rebel songs in the GDR
ABSTRACT In the 1970s and ‘80s, several East German folk revival artists started playing Irish traditional music, long before reconnecting with German folk-song material that had been put into the service of extreme nationalist and racist propaganda during the Nazi era (1933–45). Drawing upon ethnographic research among former GDR folk musicians, this article proposes that many of these post-war artists aligned with the anti-colonial messages of Irish rebel songs, performing a veritable sense of ‘Irish’ Republicanism, a form of national pride that was considered more socially acceptable than indigenous patriotic German leanings. Adapting Boym’s (2001) concept of ‘sideways nostalgia’, and illustrating crucial distinctions between historical registers of German and Irish musical exceptionalism, the article purports to unravel trajectories through which this narrative of political alignment is fashioned and sustained, ultimately illustrating music’s capacity to sound nationalism’s polyphonic trajectories.
期刊介绍:
Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.