Articles by tag "Austrian studies"

Heinrich Schenker’s Identities as a German and a Jew
During his lifetime the music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935) was confronted with a variety of different cultures. After attending a Polish school in the eastern province of Galicia, he moved to Vienna, where he faced a cultural environment dominated by Catholicism, opening up for him, as a Jew, different options...
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Austria’s Memory Turn on Display: Music Exhibitions as Pathways out of Oblivion
In the 1980s and 1990s, Austria underwent a significant reevaluation of its historical, cultural, and identity consciousness. The interplay between political and public debates at the local level and scholarly shifts at the global level led to a memory turn. Concurrently, the “new museum” redefined its functions in and for...
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