Re: Anthems, National and Post-national
On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:11 PM, dredmond@efn.org wrote:
On the other hand, the anthem of that friendly neighborhood
superpower, the European Union, is the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th symphony
- one of the supreme incarnations of melody.
Not that Beethoven was known for melody. As every Adorno student
knows, he was all about development. But what about that Turkish
military march in the middle of an ode to joy?
Doug