Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen FryAlex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

About the author

Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at the New Yorker. His first book The Rest is Noise is about the cultural history of music since 1990, which won the Guardian First Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of Listen to This. He lives in Los Angeles.

Summary

’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Ross, Ross Alex
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780008422943
• ISBN: 978-0-00-842294-3
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 47 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, History: specific events & topics, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Opera, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Music, Theory of music & musicology, Music reviews & criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Biography: arts and entertainment, Composers & songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, History of Performing Arts, Music composition, Western "classical" music