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"Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of historical topics, from spa cu...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Composers in context
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"Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of historical topics, from spa culture to racial theory, sentient bodies to stage technology, America to Spain, it casts an eye forward to contexts of Wagner's ongoing reception, from video gaming to sound recording, Israel to Friedrich Kittler, and twenty-first century warfare. The collection brings together an international cast of leading authorities and new voices. Its 42 short chapters offer a reader-friendly way into Wagner studies, with authoritative studies of central topics set alongside emerging new fields. It sheds new light on previously neglected individuals such as Minna Wagner, Theodor Herzl and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and investigates the global circulation of Wagner's works, his approach to money, and the controversies that continue to accompany him."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 459 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-453) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108836463 1108836461 9781108819084 1108819087 |
| Index Number: | ML410 |
| CLC: | J605.516 |
| Call Number: | J605.516/W133 |
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Paris / Dresden / Zurich and Lucerne / Italy / London / Bayreuth as City : a Wagnerian chronology / America / Spain in the cosmos of Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt / Nietzsche and Wagner : the logic of contradiction / Wagner, Schopenhauer and the world as a phantasmagoria / Assessing Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient : influence, genre, and voice / Cosima Wagner / The Wagner family : rebellion, honour, aftermath / National politics / Revolutionary politics / World drama : Wagner's Hegelian heritage / Towards an 'ideal' feminine / Health & wellness / Sexuality & social mores / Sentient bodies / Racial theory / Life, language & the ancient world. Wagner's finances / Wagner's apprenticeship / Wagner's mendacious humanism : Wagnerian rhetoric between nature and the human / Declaiming Wagner : between genesis and historical performance practice / The German study of India and Buddhism / Greek drama in its nineteenth-century reception / Music & performance. Orchestration / Wagner and music analysis : Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens / The scene of grand opera / Wagner on the move / Stage technology / Historic staging (1876-1976) / Reception. Regietheater in performance / Twentieth-century reception and anti-Semitisim / Bayreuth as idea : Chamberlain, Wolzogen, Hitler / Performing Wagner in Israel : an affront or a tribute? / Nineteenth-century music criticism / Wotan's stormtroopers and the total art machine : Kittler's Ring of the Nibelung / Sound recording / The Wagnerian erotics of video game music / |