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Zur Funktion der Volksliedelemente in Georg Weerths Gedichtzyklus 'Die Not' (1844/45)
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Zur Funktion der Volksliedelemente in Georg Weerths Gedichtzyklus 'Die Not' (1844/45) |
In: | Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung, 32, 1987, S. 39-63 |
veröffentlicht: |
Erich Schmidt
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Umfang: | 39-63 |
ISSN: |
0075-2789 |
Zusammenfassung: | <p>On the function of folksong elements in Georg Weerth's poem cycle "Die Not" (1844/45). Interpretations have hitherto used an ahistorical and socially undifferentiated conception of folksong in approaching Weerth's work. He was interested in the collective, group-defining functions of singing for the oppressed; at the same time, the use of certain folksong elements belongs in the tradition of late Romantic poetry and song and is of itself apolitical. In an adaption of a traditional song making fun of tailors, a compact tragic narrative is created out of familiar stereotypes and the connotation of fixed elements is broadened: the result is a contribution to the building of political consciousness addressed simultaneously to the oppressed classes and to the socialist intelligentsia. Within the whole cycle there is a development away from the folksong-style diction of canonical Romantic poetry towards everyday language, paralleling the underlying narrative of the burgeoning of proletarian class-consciousness, and culminating in the Hunger Song: this is an original song intended for popular working-class use, which has overcome the legacy of Romantic norms.</p> |
Format: | E-Article |
Quelle: |
sid-55-col-jstormusic sid-55-col-jstoras3 JSTOR Music Archive JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive |
Sprache: | Deutsch |