Wagner in Context / edited by David Trippett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trippett, David, 1980- editor.

Series:

Composers in context

Composers in Context Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 459 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner. This collection brings together leading scholarship on Wagner, his social and intellectual contexts, and reception while casting an eye forward to contexts of Wagner's ongoing reception, from video gaming to sound recording, Israel to German media theory, and twenty-first century warfare"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Place. Paris / Katharine Ellis ; Dresden / Thomas S. Grey ; Zurich and Lucerne / Chris Walton ; Italy / Ellen Lockhart ; London / Barry Millington ; Bayreuth as City : a Wagnerian Chronology / Sven Friedrich ; America / Leon Botstein ; Spain in the Cosmos of Richard Wagner / Dieter Borchmeyer

People. Franz Liszt / Joanne Cormac ; Nietzsche and Wagner : The Logic of Contradiction / Federico Celestini / Wagner, Schopenhauer and the World as a Phantasmagoria / Robert Wicks ; Assessing Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient : influence, genre, and voice / Anno Mungen ; Cosima Wagner / Eva Rieger ; The Wagner Family : Rebellion, Honour, Aftermath / John Deathridge

Politics, Ideas & Bodies. National Politics / Tim Blanning ; Revolutionary Politics / Mark Berry ; World Drama : Wagner's Hegelian Heritage / Günter Zöller ; Towards an 'ideal' Feminine / Eva Rieger ; Health & Wellness / Holly Watkins ; Sexuality & Social Mores / Barry Millington ; Sentient Bodies / David Trippett ; Racial Theory / George Williamson

Life, Language & The Ancient World. Wagner's Finances / Sven Friedrich ; Wagner's Apprenticeship / Anna Stoll Knecht ; Wagner's Mendacious Humanism : Wagnerian Rhetoric between Nature and the Human / Kirsten Paige ; Declaiming Wagner : between Genesis and Historical Performance Practice / Martin Knust ; The German Study of India and Buddhism / Douglas McGetchin ; Greek Drama in its Nineteenth-Century Reception / Michael Ewans

Music & Performance. Orchestration / Edward Reeve ; Wagner and Music Analysis : Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens / Patrick McCreless ; The Scene of Grand Opera / Barbara Eichner ; Wagner on the Move / Charlotte Bentley ; Stage Technology / Gundula Kreuzer ; Historic Staging (1876-1976) / Patrick Carnegy

Reception. Regietheater in Performance / Clemens Risi ; Twentieth-Century Reception and anti-Semitisim / Pamela Potter ; Bayreuth as Idea : Chamberlain, Wolzogen, Hitler / Udo Bermbach ; Performing Wagner in Israel : An Affront or a Tribute? / Victor Nefkens ; Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism / Alexander Wilfing ; Wotan's Stormtroopers and the Total Art Machine : Kittler's Ring of the Nibelung / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young ; Sound Recording / Laura Tunbridge ; The Wagnerian Erotics of Video Game Music / Tim Summers

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108872706

1108872700

9781108872881

1108872883

9781108871150

1108871151