Columbia, SC: Camden House, Date: 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 shows how the theater of Brecht draws on many of its aesthetic assumptions. Bodek examines the very different aesthetics and political assumptions of Social Democratic workers choruses and Communist agitprop theater. Although the political cadres of both parties were concerned with the influence of economic, social, and class factors on the production of art and in turn on the population in general, they developed and pursued radically different programs in their attempts to u ...

ISBN10: 1571131264, ISBN13: 9781571131263, [publisher: Camden House, Columbia, SC] Hardcover 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 shows how the theater of Brecht draws on many of its aesthetic assumptions. Bodek examines the very different aesthetics and political assumptions of Social Democratic workers choruses and Communist agitprop theater. Although the political cadres of both parties were concerned with the influence of economic, social, and class factors on the production of art and in turn on the population in general, they developed and pursued radically different programs in their attempts to use culture to further their politica ...
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ISBN10: 1571131264, ISBN13: 9781571131263, [publisher: Camden House, Columbia, SC] Hardcover First Edition Octavo in dust jacket, frontispiece photo, xiv, 184 pp., b/w photos, works cites, index
[Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]