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Internationalism, Regionalism, And National Culture: Music Control In Bavaria, 1945–1948, David Monod
Internationalism, Regionalism, And National Culture: Music Control In Bavaria, 1945–1948, David Monod
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For many Germans in the immediate postwar period, all that remained of their country was its art. Subjugation, destruction, the pain of unfathomable guilt: these had ripped away at the national psyche, severing nation from nationalism, person from people, the present from the past. “We are,” wrote Wolfgang Borchert in 1946, “a generation without a homecoming, because we have nothing to which we can return.” Nation: what would that word now mean? An occupied state no longer possessing statehood, a conquered people starved even of the moral strength that might come from resisting. Even if the institutions of national governance …