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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458246503321

Autore

Kater Michael H.

Titolo

The Twisted Muse [[electronic resource] ] : Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-281-34680-2

9786611346805

0-19-535107-X

1-60256-399-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

780.943

Soggetti

Fine Arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 NATIONAL SOCIALISM, THE THIRD REICH, AND THE MUSIC SCENE; Music, Economics, and Political Opportunism; Nazi Agencies of Music Administration; Nazi Musical Careers; 2 MUSICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND POLITICAL COMPROMISE; Hitler's Bias: Knappertsbusch and His Nemesis Krauss; Political Allegiance and Career Enhancement; 3 PERSECUTED AND EXILED JEWISH AND ANTI-NAZI MUSICIANS; Nazi Anti-Semitic Policy in the Music Sector; Jewish Musicians under Nazi Rule; Jewish Flight and Exile; Exiled Non-Jewish Musicians; 4 MUSIC IN THE INSTITUTIONS

Family, School, and Hitler YouthThe Academies and the Protestant Church; 5 DISSONANCE AND DEVIANCE; The Nazi Struggle for Modernity in Music; The Ambiguities of Dissidence: Orff, Wagner-Régeny, and Furtwängler; Balancing Acts: Strauss and Pfitzner; Forms of Resistance; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;

Sommario/riassunto

Under a totalitarian regime, can art and artists be innocent? This questions and its implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians, and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich.