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Music in the Third Reich

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  • © 1994

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  1. Erik Levi

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Conservative Musical Reaction in the Weimar Republic, 1919–33

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 1-13

  3. Music and State Control

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 14-38

  4. Anti-Semitism

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 39-81

  5. Entartete Musik: The War Against Modernism

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 82-123

  6. Technology Serves Music: Radio and Recording during the Third Reich

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 124-146

  7. Responding to the Market: Music Publishing in the Third Reich

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 147-165

  8. Conformism or Challenge: The Opera House in the Third Reich

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 166-194

  9. Continuity or Change: The Symphony Orchestra and its Repertoire

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 195-219

  10. Rewriting Musical History: Music Literature and the Musical Press

    • Erik Levi
    Pages 220-242

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 243-303
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In this authoritative study, one of the first to appear in English, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during one of the darkest periods of recent cultural history. Utilising material drawn from contemporary documents, journals and newspapers, he traces the evolution of reactionary musical attitudes which were exploited by the Nazis in the final years of the Weimar Republic, chronicles the mechanisms that were established after 1933 to regiment musical life throughout Germany and the occupied territories, and examines the degree to which the climate of xenophobia, racism and anti-modernism affected the dissemination of music either in the opera house and concert hall, or on the radio and in the media.

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'Clear and matter-of-fact, adopting the cool objectivity that is advisable when dealing with such extraordinary and chilling material, this book is needed to make us reflect on an essential part of the history of twentieth-century music.' - Peter Franklin

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  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Erik Levi

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