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The Political Orchestra - The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich (Paperback)
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The Political Orchestra - The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich (Paperback)
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This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna
Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of
archival material, including some discussed here for the first
time, Fritz Trumpi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in
the larger political constellation. Trumpi looks first at the
decades preceding National Socialist rule, when the competing
orchestras, whose rivalry mirrored a larger rivalry between Berlin
and Vienna, were called on to represent "superior" Austro-German
music and were integrated into the administrative and social
structures of their respective cities-becoming vulnerable to
political manipulation in the process. He then turns to the Nazi
period, when the orchestras came to play a major role in cultural
policies. As he shows, the philharmonics, in their own unique ways,
strengthened National Socialist dominance through their showcasing
of Germanic culture in the mass media, performances for troops and
the general public, and fictional representations in literature and
film. Accompanying these propaganda efforts was an increasing
politicization of the orchestras, which ranged from the dismissal
of Jewish members to the programming of ideologically appropriate
repertory-all in the name of racial and cultural purity. Richly
documented and refreshingly nuanced, The Political Orchestra is a
bold exploration of the ties between music and politics under
fascism.
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