Musical Power: Political Aesthetics and Music in the German Democratic Republic

?Socialist realism? was a recurring trope of the aesthetic and cultural discourse under Communism. Drawing on a discourse-analytic approach, Golan Gur explores the implications of this notion for music aesthetics in the GDR in view of the political experiences and convictions of émigré musical thinkers and composers.

Golan Gur is a musicologist specializing in the aesthetics and cultural history of music. He completed his doctoral studies in Music Sociology and the Social History of Music at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has served as a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge and as a Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania?s Herbert D. Katz Center. He is currently IFK_Research Fellow.