Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht Tapa dura - 1998

Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj with red lettering, mylar cover; bw illustrated frontispiece, xiv, 184 pp, bw illustrations. "The late years of the Weimar Republic were a time of political disillusionment and economic disintegration. Nowhere were the forces competing for the political allegiances of the working class more active than in Berlin. Bodek's study examines the interplay of socialist and communist politics with the world of the working class (and particularly its young people) in the forms of agitprop theater, workers' chorus, and the modernist theater of Brecht. Using sources such as newspaper articles and reviews, the texts of agitprop plays, festival and concert programs, and police reports, Bodek provides a new angle on the cultural and political forces at work in the proletarian sphere during the period, and… Leer más