Prof. Dr. Julia Sneeringer

Professor of History

History Dept.

City University of New York (Queens College & Graduate Center)

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Professor of History

Current project(s)

A very short history of West Germany, a history of Hamburg as music city

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Winning Women's Votes: Politics and Propaganda in Weimar Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Based on my dissertation of the same name, University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

Articles

“Socially Engaging with Music: Pleasure, Distinction, and Identity.” In Musicking in Twentieth Century Europe: A Handbook, 235-256. Edited by Klaus Nathaus and Martin Rempe. Ber-lin: DeGruyter, 2020.

“The Spaces of Early Rock and Roll in Hamburg.” In Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place and Globalisation, vol. 2, 213-29. Edited by Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, and M. Selim Yavuz. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

“Music Made in Hamburg: How One City’s Music Scene Helped Make Rock and Roll the Lingua Franca of Youth.” In Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor, 54-72. Edited by Neil Gregor and Tom Irvine. New York: Berghahn, 2019.

*“Sites of Corruption, Sites of Liberation: Hamburg-St. Pauli and the Contested Spaces of Early Rock’n’Roll,” Contemporary European History 26:2 (May 2017), 313-37.

*“Meeting The Beatles: What Beatlemania Can Tell Us About West Germany in the 1960s,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 6:2 (2013), 172-198.

“Musikkultur und Jugendprotest in Hamburg in den 1960er Jahre,” [Music Culture and Youth Protest in 1960s Hamburg] in 19 Tage Hamburg. Ereignisse und Entwicklungen der Stadtgeschichte seit der fünfziger Jahre [19 Days of Hamburg: Events and Developments in City History since the 1950s], 95-109. Edited by Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg. Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz, 2012.

*“John Lennon, Autograph Hound: The Fan-Musician Community in Hamburg’s Early Rock & Roll Scene, 1960-65,” special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Edited by Anne Rubenstein and Nancy Reagin. Vol. 6, 2011. 18 ms. pages. http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/228

*“‘Assembly Line of Joys’: Touring Hamburg’s Red-Light District 1950-1966,” Central European History 42:1 (March 2009), 65-96. Also published as «КОНВЕЙЕР РАДОСТЕЙ»: ПРОГУЛКА ПО ГАМБУРГСКОМУ РАЙОН КРАСНЫХ ФОНАРЕЙ (1949—1966)” in New Literary Review [Moscow] 117 (2012), 305-40.

“‘Frauen an die Front!’ The Language of Kampf in DNVP Women’s Propaganda, 1918-1932.” In 'Ihrem Volk verantwortlich'. Frauen der politischen Rechten 1890-1933. Organisationen - Agitationen – Ideologien, 177-98. Edited by Eva Schöck-Quinteros and Christiane Streu-bel. Berlin: Trafo-Verlag, 2007.

*“The Shopper as Voter: Women, Advertising, and Politics in Post-inflation Germany," German Studies Review XXVII:3 (October 2004): 476-502. Winner of the DAAD Article Prize of the German Studies Association 2006.

Areas of research

Popular music
Popular culture 20th c. Europe (esp. Germany)
Gender and sexuality
Youth culture

Classification
Temporal Classification
Regional Classification