{"id":586,"date":"2021-06-14T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filippoboninsegna.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2021-07-31T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T09:15:25","slug":"wagnerism-art-and-politics-in-the-shadow-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filippoboninsegna.com\/wagnerism-art-and-politics-in-the-shadow-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Book by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Ross_(music_critic)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Ross<\/a>, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Wagnerism&nbsp;(2020) chronicles how the works of Richard Wagner have influenced thinkers in the years since his death. Exploring the multitude of ways in which people have interpreted his music, it looks beyond his artistic legacy to his political influence \u2013 most of all on the Nazi party.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Richard Wagner\u2019s influence on art and politics has been immense right up to the present day. Different countries, movements, and individuals have all interpreted his monumental music dramas in different ways. For the French he was scandalously decadent, for the Germans he was proudly nationalistic. For modernist writers he was an artistic pioneer, and for politicians he was a revolutionary \u2013 as Hitler\u2019s appropriation of Wagner shows only too well. What Wagner\u2019s powerful, strident music really meant remains ambiguous \u2013 but the more compelling question is, What do&nbsp;we&nbsp;make of him?<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blinkist.com\/en\/books\/wagnerism-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Blinkist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3gvbLvM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50403493-wagnerism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Discover how the composer Richard Wagner influenced cultural life long after his death.<\/li><li>Richard Wagner\u2019s visionary music dramas have remained astonishingly influential.<\/li><li>Wagner\u2019s international influence on literature was vast, varied, and lasting.<\/li><li>Wagner\u2019s enormous artistic influence in Austria and Germany was entangled with nationalism.<\/li><li>Despite Wagner\u2019s bigoted views, he had fans among Jewish, Black, and gay communities.<\/li><li>As war and revolution raged, both the right and the left appropriated Wagner.<\/li><li>The Nazis\u2019 appropriation of Wagner rested on just one possible interpretation of the composer\u2019s ambiguous worldview.<\/li><li>Wagner has continued to inspire art and culture \u2013 and resist easy interpretation.<\/li><li>Richard Wagner\u2019s passionate and compelling music dramas reflect humanity, for better or worse.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From the reviews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>&#8230;great read on how art can have an effect on culture<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">If you found value in this article, it would be amazing if you shared it on your favorite social media platform!&nbsp;<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ross book &#8220;Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music&#8221;. 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