“Exploring Social Identities in Gustav Mahler’s Life and Music”

– Read and be prepared to discuss the following: Batstone, “A Dance from Iglau: Gustav Mahler Bohemia, and the Complexities of Austrian Identify”; Barham, “Mahler, Heimat and Randkultur”; and Barham, “‘Made in Germany’: Mahler, Identity and Musicological Imperialism,” in Mathis-Rozenzweig, Gustav Mahler. Be prepared to discuss how these authors (and those whose work they cite) understand social identities such as Austrian, German, Bohemian, Slavic, Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and so on. What do you think of all this? Are social identities fixed? fluid? permeable? How does any of this relate to the various maps shown in our first seminar meeting (some of which are available in our Canvas course space under the tab Files > Maps)? Submit CREs of any two of the three articles.