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The twisted muse : musicians and their music in the Third Reich / Michael H. Kater.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kater, Michael H., 1937-
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online. History module.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National socialism and music.
- Music and state--Germany--20th century.
- Music and state.
- Musicians--Germany--Attitudes.
- Musicians.
- Music--Germany--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent?
- These questions and their implications are explored in Michael H. Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Kater examines the value of music for the Nazi regime and the degree to which the regime attained a positive propaganda and palliative effect through the manner in which it manipulated its musicians, and by extension, German music. "The broadest and dearest study of classical music in Hitler's Germany that has appeared to date.....Anyone interested in the depressing but fascinating subject of art and politics will find this book exceptionally worthwhile". -- Wall Street Journal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2014).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 019535107X
- 9780195351071
- Publisher Number:
- 99958072965
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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