Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Germanocentrism


  
  Ethnocentrism
Some expressions of ethnocentrism by the English could more accurately be described as Eurocentrism.
Germanocentrism is a form of ethnocentrism specific to people who self-identify as Germans, irrespective of such individuals' genetic makeup, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation.
Some expressions of ethnocentrism by ethnic Germans could more accurately be described as Eurocentrism.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Germanocentrism.html   (349 words)

  
 Musicology and Society From the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich
The essential feature of their work that allowed such a series of seeming re-inventions was their unchanging commitment to defining and defending a Germanocentric view of music history, one in which German musical superiority, variously understood, somehow compensated for the German nation's political frustrations, social divisions, and even military defeats.
The survival of musicological Germanocentrism brings us to the final, in some ways most intriguing, part of the book--Potter's treatment of the whole failed process of denazification.
This chapter is characterized by the same precise and balanced judgment with which she analyzed the professional fortunes of various musicologists in the Nazi years, yet it is laden with far more historical irony.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/reviews/Potter.HTM   (1071 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Though interested in a multi-level approach to music analysis, and (ostensibly) less obsessed with the vertical element of music than those two predecessors, Heinrich Schenker’s theories, too, involve the reduction of seemingly non-isomorphic musical surfaces to structural/formal prototypes built around a limited set of harmonic pillars.
Schenker’s frequently vitriolic Germanocentrism and musical exclusivity are, of course, legendary.
It has been shown that Riemann’s theory, despite his interest, late in life especially, in non-Western music, is similarly biased.
www-personal.umich.edu /~torrella/Johnston/html/Part1_1.html   (598 words)

  
 Beware of ethnocentrism | Doing my Homework
Ethnocentrism creates false judgments about others’ based on limited experience.
Some examples of ethnocentrism are Americentrism, Anglocentrism, and Germanocentrism.
The assumptions that we make about others’ experience can involve false negative judgments, reflected in the common definition of ethnocentrism.
www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/54560.html   (205 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.