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  • Nationalism, Chauvinism and Racism as Reflected in European Musical Thought and in Compositions from the Interwar Period

    Series Libro 14 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book concerns the ways in which many different types of nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period, and how the leading artistic personalities of that period reacted to these ideologies. The concept of "nationalism" is understood broadly in this book and covers the entire spectrum of its positive and negative aspects. The topics listed in the ... Leer más

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  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    de Alex Ross ...
    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist 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.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of ... Leer más

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  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Leer más

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  • The German Genius

    Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

    de Peter Watson ...
    A "compelling" history of German cultural and intellectual development from 1750 to the twentieth century ( Financial Times).From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than the British and Americans combined ... Leer más

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  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Leer más

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  • Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

    An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an ... Leer más

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  • The Romantic Revolution

    A History

    de Tim Blanning ...
    Series Libro 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National ReviewFrom the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Leer más

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  • Bertolt Brecht

    de Philip Glahn ...
    Series Libro 51 - Critical Lives
    Playwright, poet and activist Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was known for his theory of the Epic Theatre and his attempts to break down the division between high art and popular culture. The Threepenny Opera, his collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, was a milestone in musical theatre, and plays like Mother Courage and Galileo changed the course of modern drama and aesthetic theory.Framed by two ... Leer más

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  • The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

    de David Roberts ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

    de Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from the time that he published his first novel in 1901, Mann became an iconic figure, seen as the living embodiment of German national culture. ... Leer más

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  • Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

    On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy

    Edición de Jacob Golomb, Robert S. Wistrich ...
    An examination of the association between the influential and controversial philosopher's ideas and fascistic beliefs.Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Übermensch endowed with exceptional mental qualities. What can such a thinker have in common with the fascistic manipulation of the masses for ... Leer más

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  • Forbidden Music

    The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

    With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and ... Leer más

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