#JeSuisAmatrice: identity through a landscape of wounds; toward a geo-imagology
Italy has experienced a high number of earthquakes. However, the identity of "the Italians" has not yet been defined by their "landscape of wounds." Referring to an earthquake in central Italy (Amatrice) in August 2016, the French satirical magazine...
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Italy has experienced a high number of earthquakes. However, the identity of "the Italians" has not yet been defined by their "landscape of wounds." Referring to an earthquake in central Italy (Amatrice) in August 2016, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a controversial caricature of two wounded Italians standing alongside the "Lasagnes," a pile of bodies layered like the well- known Italian pasta dish. By analysing the caricature's text, intertext, and context, while drawing on imagology and geopoetics, this article aims to show how earthquakes are linked to Italian cultural stereotypes and national identity.
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Singing the Dutch : an extended imagological approach to constructions of "Dutchness" in late eighteenth-century political songs
Throughout history, songs have been considered effective instruments to strengthen the formation of collective identities. Eighteenth-century Dutch songwriters engaged with this idea in their striving for national unity. Political songs from that...
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Throughout history, songs have been considered effective instruments to strengthen the formation of collective identities. Eighteenth-century Dutch songwriters engaged with this idea in their striving for national unity. Political songs from that period employ several tropes, and the music often reinforces such images through musical imagery and intertextual references. Moreover, the imagined identities voiced in the songs might have become embodied identities through the performative act of singing. Therefore, for an investigation of the construction of collective identities in songs, the imagological approach can be expanded to musical imagery and take into account cognitive theories explaining the effects of singing.
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"… the first singer, a born German" : notions of nationality as a field of conflict in operatic music of the 1770s
This article contributes to the European history of musical nationalism with regard to operatic debates in the eighteenth century. The investigation reveals that within operatic debates national categories were used for all levels of the multimedia...
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This article contributes to the European history of musical nationalism with regard to operatic debates in the eighteenth century. The investigation reveals that within operatic debates national categories were used for all levels of the multimedia genre of opera: music, text, composer, and actor. Moreover, the relationship between national character and national taste was a highly critical point: there was general agreement that only outstanding aesthetic abilities enable composers to go beyond their own particular national character. Only in this respect could aesthetic abilities stand above national taste, which was said to be shaped by national character.
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Blurring stereotypes : "Aus dem Leben eines Tonkünstlers" as a medium of Italian musical character around 1800
How can music history help us understand the establishment of national character? This article discusses a prosaic text by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz as a medium for implementing stereotypical ideas of "the Italian" in German music historiography and,...
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How can music history help us understand the establishment of national character? This article discusses a prosaic text by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz as a medium for implementing stereotypical ideas of "the Italian" in German music historiography and, thereby, in public consciousness. It shows how particular musical qualities of the story's fictional protagonists are blurred with ideas of national character. Against this background, the predominant reception of the author Rochlitz in the realm of German music historiography can be reevaluated from a more transnational scholarly perspective. Key to this reassessment is investigation into the categories of fictional and musical characters with regard to notions of both "the German" and "the Italian."
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Die visuelle Kultur des Schiffbruchs und der moralische Betrachter
Wir sind heutzutage mit Bildern menschlichen Leids mehr als vertraut. [...] Doch was sind die historischen Ursprünge dieses Topos? Wie lassen sich die diskursiven Tropen, die unsere moralischen und affektiven Begegnungen mit dem humanitären Bild...
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Wir sind heutzutage mit Bildern menschlichen Leids mehr als vertraut. [...] Doch was sind die historischen Ursprünge dieses Topos? Wie lassen sich die diskursiven Tropen, die unsere moralischen und affektiven Begegnungen mit dem humanitären Bild bestimmen - die 'Mitleidsmüdigkeit', der Zwang hinzusehen -, durch die Geschichte der Ikonographie des Leidens verfolgen? Die Darstellung gefährdeter Seeleute nimmt in dieser Geschichte einen besonderen Platz ein. [...] Wie hat sich diese Ikonographie im Laufe der Zeit entwickelt? Welche Art von moralischem Subjekt setzen solche Darstellungen als Betrachter voraus und welche Art von Reaktion lösen sie bei diesem aus? Diese Bilder entstanden parallel zur Entwicklung der sozialen und kulturellen Hegemonie des Bürgertums und der des 'modernen' Subjekts, der Privatperson im Sinne des Liberalismus. Das Selbstverständnis dieser Figur (und ihre Klassenzugehörigkeit) hingen zunehmend von einer Reihe von Annahmen über ihre moralische Weltanschauung ab. Bilder von Schiffbrüchigen können uns also viel über die Entstehung dieses modernen Subjekts, die Geschichte der Emotionen und ihre Beziehung zur Moral erzählen.
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