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Classical Music in Weimar Germany - Culture and Politics before the Third Reich (Hardcover)
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Classical Music in Weimar Germany - Culture and Politics before the Third Reich (Hardcover)
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From Hitler's notorious fondness for Wagner's operas to classical
music's role in fuelling German chauvinism in the era of the world
wars, many observers have pointed to a distinct relationship
between German culture and reactionary politics. In Classical Music
in Weimar Germany, Brendan Fay challenges this paradigm by
reassessing the relationship between conservative musical culture
and German politics. Drawing upon a range of archival sources,
concert reviews and satirical cartoons, Fay maps the complex path
of classical music culture from Weimar to Nazi Germany-a trajectory
that was more crooked, uneven, or broken than straight. Through an
examination of topics as varied as radio and race to nationalism,
this book demonstrates the diversity of competing aesthetic,
philosophical and political ideals held by German music critics
that were a hallmark of Weimar Germany. Rather than seeing the
cultural conservatism of this period as a natural prelude for the
violence and destruction later unleashed by Nazism, this
fascinating book sheds new light on traditional culture and its
relationship to the rise of Nazism in 20th-century Germany.
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