Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music

Ross, Alex, 1968- author.

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"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." -- Provided by publisher.

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Art and music History 19th century

Motion pictures and music History 20th century

Music and literature History 19th century

Music and literature History 20th century

Opera Political aspects History 19th century

Opera Political aspects History 20th century

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 Influence

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ISBN:

9780374285937

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 769 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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

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2020012449

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3038095

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