Format:
XII, 439 S. : Ill., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:
0-8032-4775-3
Series Statement:
Texts and contexts 12
Content:
This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner. Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued that it is irrelevant to the operas themselves. Marc A. Weiner challenges that traditional view by asserting that anti-Semitism is a crucial, pervasive feature in Wagner's operas. Weiner argues that the operas exemplify and contribute to a vast collection of images that are patently anti-Semitic - and that were readily recognized as such by nineteenth-century German audiences. These images were associated particularly with the body. Through a careful examination of Wagner's music, libretti, and stage directions, Weiner reconstructs iconographies of corporeal images - iconographies of the eye, voice, smell, gait, and sexuality - that were essential to the operas and were "associated with anti-Semitism and the longing for an imagined German community."
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
1813-1883 Das Judentum in der Musik Wagner, Richard
;
1813-1883 Wagner, Richard
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Oper
;
Antisemitismus
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1813-1883 Wagner, Richard
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Oper
;
Judentum
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0y6-aa
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a3r2-aa
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/94012187-b.html
