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Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music

Title
Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music / Alex Ross.
Author
Ross, Alex, 1968-
Publication
  • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Description
x, 769 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
"A large-canvas narrative history, charting the impact of the cultural titan Wagner on art and politics. Ross will show how various artists--composers, novelists, poets, filmmakers--wrestled with the legacy of Wagner in the twentieth century"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Music criticism and reviews.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-728) and index.
Contents
Prelude : Death in Venice -- Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring -- Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists -- Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America -- Grail temple : Esoteric, decadent, and satanic Wagner -- Holy German art : The Kaiserreich and fin-de-siècle Vienna -- Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner -- Venusberg : Feminist and gay Wagner -- Brünnhilde's rock : Willa Cather and the singer-novel -- Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914 -- Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's youth -- Ring of power : Revolution and Russia -- Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The waste Land, The waves -- Siegfried's death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann -- Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The birth of a nation to Apocalypse now -- The wound : Wagnerism after 1945.
Call Number
JME 21-92
ISBN
  • 9780374285937
  • 0374285934
LCCN
2020012449
OCLC
1136958675
Author
Ross, Alex, 1968- author.
Title
Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music / Alex Ross.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Gender group: Men
Occupational/field of activity group: Music critics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-728) and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1999
Research Call Number
JME 21-92
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