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Reading Mahler - German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Paperback)
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Reading Mahler - German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on
Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's
position in German-Jewish culture. Gustav Mahler's music is more
popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German
literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siecle
Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure
the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts
that Mahler uses to illustrate the meaning of his music, Reading
Mahler helps audiences, critics, and those interested in musical
and cultural history understand influences on Mahler's music and
thinking that may have been self-evident to middle-class Viennese a
hundred years ago but are much more obscure today. It shows that
Mahler's oeuvre, despite its reliance on texts and images from the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is far more indebted to
fin-de-siecle modernism and to an eclectic, proto-avantgardist
agenda than has been previously realized. Furthermore, Reading
Mahler is the first book to make Mahler's position within
German-Jewish culture its analytical center. It also probes
Mahler's problematic but often overlooked relationship with the
musical and textual legacy of Richard Wagner. By integrating newer
approaches in humanistic research - cultural studies, gender
studies, and Jewish studies - Reading Mahler exposes the composer's
critical view of German cultural history and offers a new
understanding of his music. Carl Niekerk is Professor in the
Department of German, the Program in Comparative and World
Literature, and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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