Traditional Urban Entertainment in Bavaria: The Volkssänger as Exemplified by Bally Prell
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Titel: | Traditional Urban Entertainment in Bavaria: The Volkssänger as Exemplified by Bally Prell |
Medientyp: | Buch, Text |
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Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
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Umfang: | 99-122 |
Zusammenfassung: | <p>This article outlines the development of Munich Volkssänger from the middle of the 19th century to the late 1970s, portraying in the second section a particular artist of the post-war period. Volkssänger as entertainers in Munich experienced their heyday from approximately 1880 to the 1920s. This form of entertainment was not unsimilar to varieté (variety shows) but was strongly marked by regional characteristics; thematically, it took its topics from everyday life. One program typically included couplet songs, ensemble numbers, humoristic solo performances, one-act sketches and parodies. After the First World War, the mass media of movies, radio and later television changed the habits of audience reception, leading to the decline or else transformation of these forms of entertainment. Bally Prell (1922-1982), who had a beautiful tenor voice, was sensationally successful in 1953 as the "Beauty Queen of Schneizlreuth." Until her death, she was mainly identified with this song and this role and she was considered the inheritor of the Munich Volkssänger tradition. Her repertoire consisted, however, also of opera and operetta music, chansons and Heder. To the present no monographic work on this singer has appeared; the biographical sketch laid out here is based upon interviews with her colleagues, friends, relatives and other witnesses of the time.</p> |
ISSN: |
0043-8774
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Datensammlung: | sid-55-col-jstoras11 sid-55-col-jstormusic JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI Archive JSTOR Music Archive |