Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitlers Reich

by Pamela M. Potter

Book Overview

This important book investigates the role played by German musicology in buttressing Nazi institutions and ideology. Pamela Potter examines the social, economic, and intellectual factors that caused some German musical scholars to support with such fervor the ideological aims of the Nazis. She argues convincingly that many of the ideas that served the regime not only predated Hitler's rise to power but survived the Nazi period to influence the conception...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300072287
• ISBN13: 9780300072280
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"