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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Benjamin Steege, "An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Description: âWhat are we thinking about when we think about music in non-naturalistic terms?â asks Benjamin SteegeâAssistant Professor of Music Theory, Columbia Universityâin his new book An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2021). This deceptively subtle question exercised the minds of some of Europe's most delicate musical thinkers at a time of great social and political upheaval, and continues to be of interest to musicologists today. Putting a little-discussed set of German-language primary sources into historical context (among others, the writing of GĂŒnther Anders (nĂ© Stern), Gustav GĂŒldenstein, and Herbert Eimert) and expertly i...