Nils Grosch
I am interested in the academic and non-academic paradigms and discursive figurations regarding questions of musical style and production strategies during the Nazi and Fascist periods in Germany and Austria. My project embraces scholarly, artistic, as well as political and economic forms of engaging with the repertoires that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s. From this starting point, I ask where and how cultural National-Socialist state politics interfered in processes of decision-making regarding style, forms, and aesthetics of music. I also analyze different strategies of evaluation, researching, and restaging in recent academic work, music industries, and performance.