In this article we explore the concept of communicative memory of modern East Germans in
contemporary hip-hop lyrics. Our study reveals that even after more than twenty years of …

Throughout their career, Rammstein has without doubt built an aesthetic program, which is
often defined by an exploration of the grotesque, macabre, and the provocative. In some …

Language instructors are grappling with the question of how to teach writing effectively in
upper‐level undergraduate world language classes. At that point, students still have to master …

In the musical discourse about social resistance inside the German Democratic Republic,
scholars have mainly focused on rock and pop music or on composers of classical music from …

This article deals with questions of the sociopolitical involvement of classical music performance
spaces. During the last twenty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the …

Students examine how specific places reflect goals of promoting fairness and repairing injustice
in society by, for example, researching the accessibility of a city's public transport system …

SINCE THE 1960S, around Gustav Mahler’s one-hundredth birthday, Mahler’s music has
been firmly integrated in the canon of the classical music world. Mahler (1860–1911)—one of …

Every regime uses certain ways in order to spread its ideology. One channel to win people
over for an organization is propaganda–an instrument which is aimed primarily at emotions …

Visitors to the Leipzig Gewandhaus in Germany can still admire its mural Gesang vom Leben
by painter Sighard Gille today, but scholarship about this East German painting has been …

Every regime uses certain ways in order to spread its ideology. One channel to win people
over for an organization is propaganda–an instrument which is aimed primarily at emotions …