Music in the Third Reich
By: Erik Levi.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Music -- Germany -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National socialism and music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Conservative musical reaction in the Weimar Republic, 1919-33: Reactionary musical attitudes, 1919-23; The re-opening of Bayreuth and the Zeitschrift für Musik; The rise of National Socialism and its influence upon musical life; title: 2. Music and state control: Towards the Gleichschaltung (Co-ordination) of musical life: the struggle between Goebbels and Rosenberg ; Goebbels, the Reichmusikkammer and the Ministry of Propaganda, 1934-9 ; Obstacles to Goebbels's authority ; Music and state control during the War; title: 3. Anti-Semitism: The removal of the Jews: 1933 and beyond ; The Kulturbund deutscher Juden and music in the Ghetto ; Anti-Semitic musical propaganda ; Redrawing the repertoire: the Aryanisation of music; title: 4. Entartete Musik: the war against modernism: The Nazi purge of modernist repertoire in 1933 ; The Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV): a test case: The Entartete Musik Exhibition ; Internationalism ; Atonality ; Neue Sachlichkeit: Hindemith and other Germans ; Jazz; title: 5. Technology serves music: radio and recording during the Third Reich: The radio ; Recording; title: 6. Responding to the market: music publishing in the Third Reich: Politicised music publications ; The suppression of Jewish music publishers ; The pre-eminence of Schott ; Successes of the period and its legacy; title: 7. Conformity or challenge: the opera house in the Third Reich: Opera in the Weimar Republic, 1927-33 ; The Nazi take-over: from Preussischer Theaterausschuss to Reichstheaterkammer ; The Reichstheaterkammer; limitations of bureaucracy and artistic policy in Dresden, Frankfurt and Berlin ; Perspectives of repertoire, 1933-45 ; An overall assessment of operatic repertoire in the Third Reich; title: 8. Continuity or change: the symphony orchestra and its repertoire: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ; Orchestras in Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg and Munich ; The Kampfbund Orchestras and the National Socialist Reichs Symphony Orchestra ; Orchestras in the occupied territories ; A general note about repertoire; title: 9. Rewriting musical history: music literature and the musical press: The racial argument ; Music histories after 1933 ; Musical biographies ; The musical press, 1933-9 ; The musical press during the war.