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This study examines the transformation that took place in worldly lied culture in German around 1600. Ornate poetry in the vernacular and solo lieder emerged in the sixteenth century and were predominantly developed using Italian elements. Their reception in the middle classes led to the dissemination and valorization of lied culture, and to its codification in literary and music theory. Weitreichende Veränderungen in Dichtung und Musik zeichnen sich um 1600 ab. Lyrik und Lied lassen sich kaum trennen, da die Lyrik dieser Zeit meist sangbar ist und entscheidend durch das weltliche Lied beeinflusst wird. Der maßgebliche Beitrag, den das Lied zum ästhetischen Wandel, zur Modernisierung und Europäisierung der deutschsprachigen Lyrik leistet, wird anhand von etwa 5200 Liedern in 340 Lieddrucken zwischen 1567 und 1642 herausgearbeitet. Vor dem Hintergrund dieses Quellenkorpus werden in der interdisziplinären Studie Einzellieder und Liedsammlungen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum musik- und literaturwissenschaftlich analysiert. Neben sozial- und gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Aspekten kommen Dimensionen der Novität ebenso zur Sprache wie das Verhältnis von Theorie, Poetik und Praxis, Kulturtransferprozesse sowie Fragen nach Kontinuitäten und Dynamiken literarischer und musikalischer Phänomene. Die Fallstudien sowie theoretische und poetische Äußerungen zum Lied erweisen, wie sich zwei Konzeptionen des Liedes profilieren: In der Verselbstständigung werden beide Liedkonzepte in Literatur und Musik aufgewertet. So trägt das weltliche deutschsprachige Lied zur Modernisierung und Europäisierung der deutschen Literatur bei.

Songs, German --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- History and criticism. --- Early modern period. --- Europeanization. --- modernization. --- German songs

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This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book i

Modernization. --- Economic development --- Social aspects. --- Africa --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government.

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Die für die moderne chinesische Geschichte charakteristische Verbindung von Kultur und Politik gewinnt in der Bewegung des 4. Mai 1919 ihren ersten prägnanten Ausdruck. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes blicken in unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf den chinesisch-deutschen Ideenaustausch, der die jene Bewegung kennzeichnende Kontroverse zwischen chinesischer Überlieferung und westlicher Moderne begleitete und nicht selten inspirierte. The union of culture and politics that is so characteristic of modern Chinese history gained its first concise expression in the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The essays in this edited volume examine the exchange of ideas between China and Germany from various perspectives, illuminating how the clash between Chinese tradition and Western modernity accompanied and often inspired the movement.

HISTORY / Asia / China. --- 20th century modernization processes. --- Chinese-German dialogue. --- May Fourth Movement. --- culture and revolution in China.

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The eastern edge of Europe has always been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr V. Kravchenko asks what the words "Ukraine" and "Russia" really mean. The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland abandons linear historical interpretation and addresses questions of identity and meaning through imperial and geographic contexts. Dominated by imperial powers, Eastern Europe and its boundaries were in a constant state of flux and re-identification during the Russian imperial period. Here, the Little Russian early modern identity discourse both connects and separates modern Russian and Ukrainian identities and gives rise to issues of historical terminology. Mirroring the historical ambiguity is the geographical fluidity of the borders between Ukraine and Russia; Kravchenko situates this issue in the city of Kharkiv and Kharkiv University as both real and imagined markers of the borderland. Putting the centuries-long Ukrainian-Russian relationship into imperial and regional contexts, Kravchenko adds a new perspective to the ongoing discourse about relations between the two nations.

Nation-building --- Ukraine --- Ukraine --- Religion. --- Relations --- Kharkiv. --- Little Russia. --- Novorossiia. --- Russia. --- Ukraine. --- borderland. --- cityscape. --- discourse. --- history. --- identity. --- modernization. --- university.

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The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.

Socialism --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Ideology, Intellectual life, Liberalism, Modernization, Nationalism, Political studies, Socialism.