Yale University Press.
Music holds a distinguished place in German culture.
As custodians of Germany's celebrated art, German musicologists have contributed their part to explaining the significance of German music in national terms. The bulk of this musical and musicological establishment managed to transfer its skills into the postwar era on both sides of the Iron Curtain. 1 Pamela Potter has written a compelling account of this line of continuity that nicely complements existing studies of music in the Third Reich. Art in totalitarian context mandates sensitivity to the dimension of totalitarian policy. I to the end of the Third Reich.