Celia Applegate
University of Rochester

"The Musical Identity of Germans:
Continuities and Disruptions
in Cultural Citizenship"

Friday, 11 March 2005
4:00 p.m.
1641 Humanities

Sponsored by
The Center for European Studies
The Center for German and European Studies
The Department of German
and The School of Music

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Celia Applegate’s research centers on the political culture of modern Germany, with particular interest in the history of German nationalism and national identity. Her first book was on the role of localist ideologies and provincial culture in German nation-building. She is currently working on a project about German music in the nineteenth century and the significance it accrued for Germans in search of a national identity. Her teaching concentrates on European history in general and German culture, society, and politics in particular, with attention to the historiography of the "German problem."

Select representative publications include: Music & German National Identity (co-edited with Pamela Potter, 2002); "How German is it? Nationalism and the Origins of Serious Music in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany" (19th Century Music, Spring 1998); "Bach Revival, Public Culture, and National Identity: The St. Matthew Passion in 1829" (In A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies, 1997); "What is German Music? Reflections on the Role of Music in the Making of the Nation" (German Studies Review, Spring 1993).