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Zusatztext Classical Music in Weimar Germany provides an important corrective to our tendency to regard tradition and modernism as simple opposites. Fay uncovers the free-wheeling exchange of opinion and activism among conservatives and progressives in the years between the end of the First World War and the Nazi seizure of power. This is a revelatory and eloquent work of interpretation, illuminating a crucial period of German musical development. Informationen zum Autor Brendan Fay is Assistant Professor in the School of Library & Information Management at Emporia State University, USA. He has been published in Current Musicology and Cultural History. Vorwort An examination of the aesthetic, philosophical, and political ideals of Weimar Germany through a study of classical music in 20th-century Germany. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: German Music and the Nazi Past1. (Re)Composing the Nation: Music, War, and the German Inflation, 1918-19242. Radios and Records: Image and Reality in Weimar Technology3. Internationalism, Nationalism and the Case of Hans Joachim Moser4. Wagner under Weimar5. Judging Performance, Performing Judgments: Race and Performance in Weimar GermanyEpilogue: Rethinking TraditionBibliographyIndex...
