Format:
1 online resource (393 pages)
ISBN:
9780199362714
Series Statement:
New Cultural History of Music Ser.
Content:
Defining Deutschtum engages the political-cultural milieu of Liberal Vienna through the discourse of three generations of music critics. Author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions.
Content:
Cover -- Series -- Defining Deutschtum -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Place Names and Orthography -- Introduction Viennese Critics and the "Habsburg Dilemma" -- Part one From the Vormärz to the Liberal Heyday -- Chapter one Hanslick's Deutschtum -- Chapter two Becoming a German: Goldmark and the Assimilationist Project -- Chapter three Liberal Essentialism and Goldmark's Early Reception -- Chapter four Rethinking the "Billroth Affair" -- Part two From the Iron Ring to the Fin de siècle -- Chapter five Language Ordinances, Nationalbesitzstand, and Dvořák's Reception in the Taaffe Era -- Chapter six Liberal Accreditation and Antisemitic Attack: Goldmark's Reception Revisited -- Chapter seven "Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows" -- or, Smetana's Reception in the 1890s -- Chapter eight Goldmark's Deutschtum Revisited -- Epilogue Germans, Jews, and Czechs in Mahler's Vienna -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199362707
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199362707
Language:
English
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