Wagner in Context
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- March 2024
- March 2024
- ISBN:
- 9781108871150
- 9781108836463
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.85kg, 484 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Music, Opera, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
- Series:
- Composers in Context
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- Music, Opera, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
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- Composers in Context
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Book description
Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of historical topics, from spa culture to racial theory, sentient bodies to stage technology, America to Spain, it casts an eye forward to contexts of Wagner's ongoing reception, from video gaming to sound recording, Israel to Friedrich Kittler, and twenty-first century warfare. The collection brings together an international cast of leading authorities and new voices. Its 42 short chapters offer a reader-friendly way into Wagner studies, with authoritative studies of central topics set alongside emerging new fields. It sheds new light on previously neglected individuals such as Minna Wagner, Theodor Herzl and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and investigates the global circulation of Wagner's works, his approach to money, and the controversies that continue to accompany him.
Reviews
'Trippett has done an excellent job in assembling the volume … A rewarding read and an ambitious, serious and open-minded addition to the Wagner literature.’
Hugo Shirley Source: Gramophone
‘An excellent resource for those in music and other fields interested in an introduction to Wagner studies … Highly recommended.’
B. Doherty Source: CHOICE
‘A weighty and wide-ranging addition to the Wagnerian library.’
Peter Franklin Source: The Wagner Journal
‘Wagner in Context is successful in providing concise summaries of well-established topics in Wagner studies while at the same time making space for new discourses, methodologies, and contexts in which his life, work, and significance may be (re)assessed … The breadth and overall accessibility of the volume may help to create new interdisciplinary connections and networks.'
Jeremy Coleman Source: Music and Letters
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