Prof. Dr. Julia Sneeringer

Professor of History

History Dept.

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

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Professor of History

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

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

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und 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.

Artikel

“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.

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

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