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    New York :New York University Press,
    UID:
    almafu_BV044748837
    Format: xv, 229 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 23 cm.
    ISBN: 978-1-4798-4994-9 , 978-1-4798-3724-3
    Content: In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color. Through an analysis of textual and media searches as well as extensive research on paid online advertising, Noble exposes a culture of racism and sexism in the way discoverability is created online. As search engines and their related companies grow in importance—operating as a source for email, a major vehicle for primary and secondary school learning, and beyond—understanding and reversing these disquieting trends and discriminatory practices is of utmost importance. An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppression contributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century. Quelle/Source: Klappentext
    Note: Dissertation California State University
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4798-6676-2
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4798-3364-1
    Language: English
    Subjects: Computer Science , Ethnology , General works , Sociology
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    Keywords: Internet ; Suchmaschine ; Algorithmus ; Diskriminierung ; Rassismus ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
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    Author information: Noble, Safiya Umoja
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  • 2
    UID:
    almafu_9958100884902883
    Format: 1 online resource (601 p.)
    ISBN: 1-281-04757-0 , 9786611047573 , 0-08-054013-9
    Content: Making Sense of Inner Sense 'Terra cognita' is terra incognita. It is difficult to find someone not taken abackand fascinated by the incomprehensible but indisputable fact: there are material systems which are aware of themselves. Consciousness is self-cognizing code. During homo sapiens's relentness and often frustrated search for self-understanding various theories of consciousness have been and continue to be proposed. However, it remains unclear whether and at what level the problems of consciousness and intelligent thought can be resolved. Science's greates
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front Cover; Quantum Theoretic Machines: What is Thought from the Point of View of Physics; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; NOTATIONS; MATHEMATICAL ABSTRACT; PART 1: MATRIX PRINCIPLE; CHAPTER 1. MINDWARE; Making sense of inner sense; The intelligence code; The evolution of the machine; The brain's unknown statistics; Thought as matrix multiplication; Heisenberg's matrix mechanics; Conversion theorem; Matrix statistics; Supersymmetry; CHAPTER 2. INFORMATION IS PHYSICAL, PHYSICS IS LOGICAL; Duality principle; Projective logic; The dimensions of the mind and the third quantization , Closing pandora's quantum boxCognizing is quantizing; Quantum computer; Reality as a complex number; Nonconvex probability; Logical quantum numbers; Does the mental violate the laws of physics?; PART 2: THE BRAIN IS GEOMETRICAL, THE MIND IS TOPOLOGICAL; CHAPTER 3. TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; Logical vacuum; Multiplicative polarization; Additive polarization and the fundamental lattice; Thoughts, knots and cross-cups; CHAPTER 4. COGNITIVE CIRCUITS; Topological current; CHAPTER 5. THE LOGICAL DERIVATIVE; CUT and ZIP operations; The quantum-mechanical derivative; The covariant derivative , The unbroken topological phaseCHAPTER 6. RECASTING LOGIC IN DIRAC NOTATION; Translating logic into quantum mechanics; CHAPTER 7. PARALLEL AND SERIAL UNIVERSES; Factorizing the thought processes; Parallel brain, serial mind; The suprasymmetric transfer function; Operator waves; Logical wave operators; The exotic statistics; CHAPTER 8. MATRIX BRANES; Brains and branes; Logical volume; Irreducible logical branes; Consciousness as a unilateral logical membrane; CHAPTER 9. THE CAT AND THE LIAR; The intellectual catastrophes; This is absolutely true±false; Quantum mathematics , CHAPTER 10. LOGICAL ROTORSTopological phase and atomic orbits; Self-measurement and backreaction; CHAPTER 11. QUANTUM KNOTS; Template supersymmetrization; Information solitons; CHAPTER 12. LOGICAL MEMBRANE ACTION; CHAPTER 13. FROM BLACK HOLES TO GRAY BRAINS; Logical Bang Blowing up the Farey Sequence; The theory of Everything; Information collapse; CHAPTER 14. THE INCREDIBLE KNOT OF CONSCIOUSNESS; Introducing gauge symmetry into logic; Beyond seven crossings; PART 3: THOUGHT TELLS THE BRAIN HOW TO SPIN, SPIN TELLS THE BRAIN HOW TO THINK; CHAPTER 15. NUMBERS AND OPERATORS; Quantum thinking , The quantization theoremSpeeding thought up; Self-""conscious"" polynomials; CHAPTER 16. LIMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL LOGIC; Truth-tables; Dealing with absurds; Negation; An unnoticed operation in Boolean logic; Logic interpolates, mind extrapolates; Timeless logic; CHAPTER 17. SELF AS A FIXED-POINT; Solving the problem of being itself; The golden ratio; Logarithmic fixed point; Second-quantized fixed points; Logical radar coordinates as fixed point; CHAPTER 18. IMPROBABILITIES; Probability of impossible and impossible probabilities; Probability calculated and probability measured , Tensor probability , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-444-82618-1
    Language: English
    Subjects: Psychology
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    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 3
    UID:
    almahu_9949681374702882
    Format: 1 online resource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789048555208 , 9048555205
    Content: This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to safety issues related to twentieth-century drug use in public space. The volume demonstrates how 'safety' is not just a social or biological condition to pursue but also a historical and cultural construct. In philosophical terms, safety can be interpreted in different ways, referring to security, certainty or trust. What does feeling safe and thinking about a safe society mean to various groups of people over time? The articles in this volume are bound by their joint effort to take a constructionist approach to emotional expressions, artistic representations, literary narratives and political discourses of (un)safety and their impact on modern European society.
    Note: Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Gemma Blok and Jan Oosterholt -- Section 1 Philosophical Conceptualisations of Safety -- 1 Security, Certainty, Trust -- Historical and Contemporary Aspects of the Concept of Safety -- Eddo Evink -- 2 Tolerance: A Safety Policy in Pierre Bayle's Thought -- Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga -- 3 The Shackles of Freedom -- The Modern Philosophical Notion of Public Safety -- Tom Giesbers -- Section 2 Security Cultures in History -- 4 The Invention of Collective Security after 1815 -- Beatrice de Graaf -- 5 Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified -- How Rotterdam's Interwar Amusement Street, the Schiedamsedijk, Became a Safe Mirror Image of Itself -- Vincent Baptist -- 6 Tourists, Dealers or Addicts -- Security Practices in Response to Open Drug Scenes in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Zurich, 1960-2000 -- Gemma Blok, Peter-Paul Bänzinger and Lisanne Walma -- Section 3 Narratives and Imaginaries of Safety -- 7 The 'Golden Age' Revisited -- Images and Notions of Safety in Insecure Times -- Nils Büttner -- 8 Safety as Nostalgia -- Infrastructural Breakdown in Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity (1938) -- Frederik Van Dam -- 9 Brace for Impact -- Spatial Responses to Terror in Belfast and Oslo -- Roos van Strien -- Section 4 Narratives and Imaginaries of Unsafety -- 10 Safe at Home? -- The Domestic Space in Early Modern Visual Culture -- Sigrid Ruby -- 11 The Transfer of Nineteenth-Century Representations of Unsafety -- A Dutch Adaptation of Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris -- Jan Oosterholt -- 12 Feeling Lost in a Modernising World -- A Critique on Martha Nussbaum's Emotion Theory through an Analysis of Feelings of Unsafety in Magda Szabó's Iza's Ballad -- Femke Kok -- List of Illustrations. , Figure 5.1 Professional profile of the Schiedamsedijk (1927). Source of map excerpt and address book data, respectively: Rotterdam City Archives, signature number: 40110-Z10, https://hdl.handle.net/21.12133/96CD44BCC38C4D1293732457E05751CE -- and Rotterdam -- Figure 5.2 Photograph of the Zevenhuissteeg with the Schiedamse­dijk in the background, presumably in 1937, by J.F.H. Roovers. Source: Romer, Passagieren op 'De Dijk', 40 / H.A. Voet. -- Figure 5.3 Photograph of The Black Diamond Bar on the Schiedamsedijk, presumably during the 1930s (exact date and creator unknown). Source: Romer, Passagieren op 'De Dijk', 57 -- Troost, De meisies van de Schiedamsedijk, 65. -- Figure 5.4 Photograph taken from inside the Prinsendam ship replica, overlooking the Schiedamsedijk during the 1935 VVV festivity week. Source: Romer, Het Leuvekwartier van weleer, 100 / Rotterdam City Archives, signature number: 2002-1588, https://hdl.ha -- Figure 7.1 Peter Paul Rubens, Adoration of the Magi, 1609 (retouched 1628-29), canvas, 355.5 × 493 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado. -- Figure 7.2 Peter Paul Rubens, Samson and Delilah, ca. 1609, panel, 185 × 205 cm, London, National Gallery. -- Figure 7.3 Christian von Couwenbergh, Samson und Delila, 1632, canvas, 156 × 196 cm, Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum. -- Figure 7.4 Peter Paul Rubens, Mars Disarmed by Venus, ca. 1615-17, canvas, 170 × 193 cm, formerly Schloss Königsberg. -- Figure 7.5 Adriaen van de Venne, Allegory of the Twelve Years' Truce, 1616, panel, 62 × 113 cm, Paris, Museé du Louvre. -- Figure 7.6 Peter Paul Rubens, Minerva Protects Pax from Mars (Allegory on the Blessings of Peace), 1629-30, canvas, 203.5 × 298 cm, London, National Gallery. , Figure 7.7 Peter Paul Rubens, A Sermon in a Village Church, ca. 1633-35, black chalk, brush and brownish red ink, watercolour, body colour and oil, 422 × 573 mm, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- Figure 7.8 Peter Paul Rubens, Lansquenets Carousing ('The Marauders'), ca. 1637-40, canvas, 121.9 × 163.2 cm, Switzerland, Private Collection. -- Figure 7.9 Peter Paul Rubens, Die Schrecken des Krieges, 1637/38, canvas, 206 × 345 cm, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina. -- Figure 7.10 Hendrick Hondius, Cows in a Landscape, 1644, etching and engraving, 20.6 × 15.7 cm. -- Figure 10.1 Abraham Bosse, Le mari battant sa femme (The husband hitting his wife), ca. 1633, engraving, 21 × 30 cm / 25.8 × 33.3 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Inv. Nr. 24.36.5 (Public Domain). -- Figure 10.2 Pieter de Hooch, Woman with Child in a Pantry, ca. 1656-60, canvas, 65 × 60.5 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Inv. Nr. SK-A-182 (Public Domain). -- Figure 10.3 Pieter de Hooch, The Bedroom, 1658/60, canvas, 51 × 60 cm, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection (Public Domain). -- Figure 10.4 Pieter de Hooch, The Messenger of Love, ca. 1670, canvas, 57 × 53 cm, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Inv. Nr. HK-184. © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk, Photo: Elke Walford. -- Figure 10.5 Pieter de Hooch, The Intruder: A Lady at Her Toilet Surprised by Her Lover, ca. 1665, canvas, 54.5 × 63 cm, London, Apsley House, The Wellington Collection, Inv. Nr. WM.1571-1948. -- Figure 10.6 Crispijn van de Passe I, Lucretia, 1589/1611, engraving, 23.3 × 16.2 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Inv. Nr. RP-P-1986-284 (Public Domain). , In English.
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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  • 4
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    Online Resource
    New York :Routledge,
    UID:
    almafu_9958110734402883
    Format: 1 online resource (277 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-134-64445-0 , 1-134-64446-9 , 0-415-19619-1 , 1-280-07872-3 , 0-203-48312-X
    Series Statement: Architext series
    Content: ^SDraws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and also develop new ones.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Illustration acknowledgments; Preface and introduction; Acknowledgments; THEORIES; WORLDS IN THE CITY: FROM WONDERS OF MODERN DESIGN TO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; INTERROGATING GLOBAL CULTURE(S); CULTURES AND SPACES OF POSTCOLONIAL KNOWLEDGES; THE TIMES AND SPACES OF MODERNITY; WRITING TRANSNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORIES: THE DIALECTICS OF DUAL DEVELOPMENT; HISTORIES; SUBURB/ETHNOBURB/GLOBURB: THE MAKING OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITIES; VILLAFICATION: THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINESE CITIES , IMAGINING THE WORLD AT HOME: THE DISTANT SPACES OF THE INDIAN CITYTRANSNATIONAL DELHI REVISITED: THE SPATIAL LANGUAGE OF THREE MODERNITIES; IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM AND ARCHITECTS OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN BRITAIN; PASTS/PRESENTS/FUTURES; WAYS OF SEEING: SERENDIPITY, VISUALITY, EXPERIENCE; AFTERWORD; References; Name index; Subject index; , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-203-68739-6
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-415-19620-5
    Language: English
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books
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  • 5
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C. :World Bank,
    UID:
    almafu_9958125480102883
    Format: xv, 231 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-283-30054-0 , 9786613300546 , 0-8213-7516-4
    Series Statement: World Bank e-Library.
    Content: The ability of the media to affect outcomes in economic and political markets has been well documented. News reporting and advertising influence consumer behavior in goods and services markets by revealing (or selectively revealing) information about a product, acting as agenda setters to influence consumer demand, or enhancing competition in markets by alerting consumers to substitutes. In political markets, they can affect behavior by informing voters about a politician's views or actions, enlightening citizens to outcomes of public policy, or taking a stance on political, social, or economic
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Editor and Authors; Abbreviations; 1 Overview: From Media Markets to Policy; 2 The Media's Influence on Public Policy Decisions; Table 2.1 Newsworthiness of Disasters; 3 National Media and Local Political Participation: The Case of the New York Times; Table 3.1 Sample Statistics; Table 3.2 Does the New York Times Depress Voting among the College Educated?; Table 3.3 Robustness of Voting Results (Statewide Elections, Residency, and Internet); Table 3.4 Does the New York Times Affect Knowledge of Congressional Candidates? , 4 Minority-Targeted Local Media and Voter Turnout: A Summary Table 4.1 Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Voter Turnout and the Presence of Spanish-Language Local Television News; Table 4.2 Percent of Black and White Voter Turnout in Locales with and without Black Weekly Newspapers, 1998; Table 4.3 Percent of Black and White Voter Turnout in Locales with and without Black Radio Stations, 1994 and 1998; 5 I'm News, Are You? Newspaper Coverage of Elected vs. Appointed Officials; Table 5.1 Average Newspaper Coverage of Elected vs. Appointed Superintendents , Table 5.2 Newspaper Coverage of Elected vs. Appointed Superintendents Table 5.3 Newspaper Coverage of Education Superintendents and Governors; Table 5.4 Election-Time Newspaper Coverage of Elected Education Superintendents; Table 5.5 Newspaper Coverage of Elected vs. Appointed Superintendents; 6 The Political Impact of Media Bias; Table 6.1 Survey of Studies on Effect of Media Bias on Political Decisions; Table 6.2 Impact of Fox News on Voting; Table 6.3 Persuasion and Mobilization Rates; 7 Market Forces and News Media in Muslim Countries , Table 7.1 Consumer Beliefs and Satellite Television Viewership Table 7.2 Consumer Beliefs and Assessments of Quality; Figure 7.1 Country-by-Country Newspaper Coefficients; Table 7.3 Consumption of Local Media; 8 Political Economy of Media Capture; Figure 8.1 Inequality and Media Freedom (Freedom House) for Democratic Countries; Figure 8.2 Inequality and Media Freedom (Freedom House) for Autocracies; Figure 8.3 Media Freedom (Freedom House) and Public Spending on Education for Democracies; Figure 8.4 Media Freedom (Freedom House) and Public Spending on Education for Democracies , Figure 8.5 Media Freedom (Freedom House) and Public Spending on Health for Democratic Countries Figure 8.6 Media Freedom (Freedom House) and Public Spending on Health for Autocracies; Table 8.1 Regional Media Freedom and Advertisement Revenues, Russian Media; Table 8.2 Description of Variables and Data Sources; Figure 8.7 Fraction of Independent Newspapers in U.S. Counties as a Function of Advertising Rates in 1881; 9 Fostering an Independent Media with a Diversity of Views; 10 Media Regulation in the United States , 11 Aspects of Two Media Models: France and the United Kingdom and EU Media Governance , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8213-7515-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 6
    UID:
    b3kat_BV049163520
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 349 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781800733350
    Series Statement: Time and the world volume 5
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-80073-323-7
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-80539-311-5
    Language: English
    Subjects: General works
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    Keywords: Zeit ; Periodisierung ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Humanökologie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Klimaänderung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books. ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Author information: Bergwik, Staffan
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  • 7
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    Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland Pub. Co | New York : sole distributors for the U.S.A., Elsevier North-Holland
    UID:
    b3kat_BV036962469
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 344 p.) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Elsevier e-book collection on ScienceDirect Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041169-3
    ISBN: 0444861351 , 9780444861351
    Series Statement: North-Holland mathematics studies 48
    Note: Includes index
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Mathematicians and their times c1981
    Language: English
    Subjects: Mathematics
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    Keywords: Mathematik ; Geschichte
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  • 8
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,
    UID:
    almafu_9961158916902883
    Format: 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : , illustrations.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780472903603 , 0472903608
    Series Statement: Theater: Theory/text/performance
    Content: The early drama of Eugene O'Neill, with its emphasis on racial themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema. By adapting O'Neill's dramatic text-changing scripts to omit offensive epithets, inserting African American music and dance, or including citations of Black internationalism-theater artists of color have used O'Neill's dramatic texts to raze barriers in American and transatlantic theater. Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of U.S. theater during the early 20th century, author Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theater scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theater. In spite of their dichotomous (and at times problematic) representation of Blackness, O'Neill's plays such as The Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings make ideal case studies because his work stimulated extraordinary, and underappreciated, traffic between Broadway and Harlem-between white and Black America. While it focuses on investigating Broadway productions of O'Neill, the book also attends to the vibrant transnational exchange in early to mid-20th century artistic production. Anchored in archival research, Racing the Great White Way recovers not only vital lost performance histories, but also the layered contexts for performing bodies across the Black Atlantic and the Circum-Atlantic.
    Note: Chapter 1 : The Emperor's Remains -- Chapter 2 : An Algerian in Paris -- Chapter 3 : Broadway's First Interracial Kiss -- Chapter 4 : Racing Operatic Emperors -- Chapter 5 : Racing the Cut : Black to Ireland -- Conclusion : What Remains?
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780472075782
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; History ; Electronic books.
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  • 9
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    New York, NY ; Oxford :Oxford Univ. Press,
    UID:
    almafu_BV005587258
    Format: XVI, 506, [16] S. : , Ill. ; , 25 cm.
    ISBN: 0-19-506508-5
    Content: From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler was the foremost cultural music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras. But a cloud still hangs over his reputation, despite his undeniable brilliance as a musician, because of a fatal and tragic decision. Wilhelm Furtwangler remained in Germany when thousands of intellectuals and artists fled after the Nazis seized power in 1933. His decision to stay behind earned him lasting condemnation as a Nazi collaborator--"The Devil's Music Master." Decades after his death, Furtwangler remains for many not only the greatest but also the most controversial musical personality of our time. In The Devil's Music Master, Sam H. Shirakawa forges the first full-length and comprehensive biography of Furtwangler
    Content: He surveys Furtwangler's formative years as a difficult but brilliant prodigy, his rise to pre-eminence as Germany's leading conductor, and his development as a musician, composer, and thinker. Shirakawa also reviews the rich recorded legacy Furtwangler documented throughout his forty-year career--such as the legendary Tristan with Kirsten Flagstad and the famous performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1942 and 1951. Equally important, Shirakawa goes backstage and behind the lines to explore how the Nazis seized control of the arts and how Furtwangler single-handedly tried to prevent such evil characters as Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring from annihilating Germany's musical life. He shows how Furtwangler, far from being a toady to the Nazis, stood up openly against Hitler and Himmler--at enormous personal risk--to salvage the musical traditions of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven
    Content: Shirakawa also presents moving and overwhelming evidence of Furtwangler's astonishing efforts to save the lives of Jews and other persecuted individuals trapped in Nazi Germany--only to be proscribed at the end of the war and nearly framed as a war criminal. But there was more to Furtwangler than his politics, or even his music, and we come to know this extraordinary man as a reluctant composer, a prolific essayist and diary keeper, a loyal friend, a formidable enemy when crossed, and an incorrigible philanderer. Numerous musical luminaries share their memories of Furtwangler to round out this vivid portrait. Based on dozens of interviews and research in numerous documents, letters, and diaries, many of them previously unpublished, The Devil's Music Master is an in-depth look at the life and times of a unique personality whose fatal flaw lay in his uncompromising belief that music and art must be kept apart from politics, a conviction that transformed him into a tragic figure
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    Language: English
    Subjects: Musicology
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    Keywords: 1886-1954 Furtwängler, Wilhelm ; 1886-1954 Furtwängler, Wilhelm ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie
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  • 10
    UID:
    almafu_BV043322722
    Format: xvi, 388 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-78238-153-2 , 978-1-78533-820-5
    Series Statement: Studies in contemporary European history volume 17
    Content: "This volume explores the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in Europe through the cultural artifacts of the times, beginning in 1936. Cultural artifacts include literature, poetry, and cinema"--Provided by publisher
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-78238-154-9
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Spanischer Bürgerkrieg ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Historische Darstellung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Historische Darstellung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Author information: Bragança, Manuel 1973-
    Author information: Tame, Peter D. 1945-
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