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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.
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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