Music

Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung . Sie zeigen, wie in diesen Texten ein Mythos von Benjowsky geschaffen wird, der auch als nationaler Erinnerungsort von Bedeutung ist . Ethnische Stereotypen in diesen Texten werden aufgezeigt, koloniale Mythen dekonstruiert .

Florian Zappe• Andrew S. Gross (eds.) Surveillance | Society | Culture Open Access

Berlin, 2020 .246 pp ., 14 fig . b/w . Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS). Vol. 3

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What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society . The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance . American companies are at the forefront of developing surveillance technologies; and government agencies, in the name of security and law and order, are monitoring our words and actions more than ever before . This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the implications of what many consider to be a far-reaching social, political, and cultural transformation . Constantin Floros Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Undeserved Gift to Humanity

Bern, 2020 . 242 pp ., 183 fig . b/w .

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Mozart’s ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music . He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness . Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being . His operatic music includes both the comic and the tragic . The present study treats the special character of his musical language and the relations between his personality and his multiform oeuvre . Its mission is to grasp the peculiarities of his operatic work, his opere serie, opere buffe and singspiels . The chapter “The Program in the Master Overtures” initiates the series of semantic analyses the author has pursued in other books . In the 19th century, it was fashionable to compare Mozart to Raffael . But the comparison is askew, as the graceful is only one side of his personality . About the German edition Chapter II “presents new and even surprising insights into the ‘program’ in Mozart’s master overtures . The connection between overture and drama is viewed from both compositional and semantic points of view . The studies, written with great stylistic and literary knowledge, enter deep into Mozart’s way of working . For both amateurs and cognoscenti, Floros achieves ad better understanding, above all, of the musical interconnections .” (Rudolf Angermüller, Mitteilungen des Mozarteums)