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“O Freunde, Nicht Diese Töne!" First World War Beethoven Reception As Precedent For The Nazi "Cult Of Art", David B. Dennis Oct 2017

“O Freunde, Nicht Diese Töne!" First World War Beethoven Reception As Precedent For The Nazi "Cult Of Art", David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Review Essay On Recent Literature About Music And German Politics, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Essay On Recent Literature About Music And German Politics, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Review Of Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich (New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich (New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Review Of Pamela M. Potter, Most German Of The Arts: Musicology And Society From The Weimar Republic To The End Of Hitler’S Reich (New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1998), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Pamela M. Potter, Most German Of The Arts: Musicology And Society From The Weimar Republic To The End Of Hitler’S Reich (New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1998), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Review Of Erik Levi, Music In The Third Reich (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Erik Levi, Music In The Third Reich (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Crying ‘Wolf’? A Review Essay On Recent Wagner Literature, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Crying ‘Wolf’? A Review Essay On Recent Wagner Literature, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Johannes Brahms's Requiem Eines Unpolitischen, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Johannes Brahms's Requiem Eines Unpolitischen, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


"Honor Your German Masters": The Use And Abuse Of "Classical" Composers In Nazi Propaganda, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

"Honor Your German Masters": The Use And Abuse Of "Classical" Composers In Nazi Propaganda, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Review Of Jonathan Petropoulos, Art As Politics In The Third Reich (Chapel Hill: North Carolina U.P., 1996), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Jonathan Petropoulos, Art As Politics In The Third Reich (Chapel Hill: North Carolina U.P., 1996), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Culture War: How The Nazi Party Recast Nietzsche, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Culture War: How The Nazi Party Recast Nietzsche, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

High culture played an important political role in Hitler’s Germany. References to music, history, philosophy, and art formed a key part of the Nazi strategy to reverse the symptoms of decline perceived after World War I. Allusions to great creators and their works were used as propaganda to remind the Volk to love and worship their nation. In the words of the French scholar Eric Michaud, author of The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany, the Nazis used culture “to make the genius of the race visible to that race.” And to cap off these images of a great national …


Their Meister's Voice: Nazi Reception Of Richard Wagner And His Works In The Völkischer Beobachter, David B. Dennis Sep 2017

Their Meister's Voice: Nazi Reception Of Richard Wagner And His Works In The Völkischer Beobachter, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

A detailed examination of Richard Wagner's reception in Nazi Germany.


"The Most German Of All German Operas": Die Meistersinger Through The Lens Of The Third Reich, David B. Dennis Sep 2017

"The Most German Of All German Operas": Die Meistersinger Through The Lens Of The Third Reich, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

A detailed analysis of the reception of Wagner's, Meistersinger, in the Third Reich.