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Author:

Ross, Alex, 1968- author.

Title:

Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music / Alex Ross.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 769 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Wagner, Richard,--1813-1883--Influence.
Opera--History--History--19th century.
Opera--History--History--20th century.
Music and literature--History--19th century.
Music and literature--History--20th century.
Art and music--History--19th century.
Motion pictures and music--History--20th century.

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0374285934
9780374285937

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136958675

LCCN:

2020012449

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)