Most German of the arts
Subtitle: musicology and society from the Weimar Republic to the end of Hitler's Reich
By: Pamela M. Potter.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Musicology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Music -- Social aspects -- Germany; Nationalism in music; National socialism and music; Denazification
Description: This 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 of music history - including that of American musical scholarship - down to the present time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356) and index.