In Search Of Wagner

Author : Theodor Adorno
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789604613
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Wagner written by Theodor Adorno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry. A foreword by Slavoj Zizek situates Adorno's reflections within present debates over Wagner's anti-Semitism and the moral status of his work, proving why this book remains one of the most important character studies of the twentieth century.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Wagner written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music--aesthetically, for their ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or 'total work of art', which inspired such productions as the Ring cycle; and, in wider terms, because of their ultimate assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. The aesthetic and the ideological and political are subtly interwoven throughout this book. Adorno, who studied under Alban Berg in Vienna and went on to become the most brilliant exponent of the Frankfurt school of German Marxism, was in many ways the cultural anti-type of his subject. In this concise synoptic account, he provides deft musicological analyses of Wagner's scores, of his compositional techniques, orchestration and staging methods, quoting copiously from the music dramas themselves. At the same time, he sets down incisive reflections on Wagner's social character, and on the ideological impulses of his artistic activity. This book is alert to the many ambiguities of the composer's career; it is attentive equally to the failures and hte innovations of his aesthetics, to his irrational urge to self-destruction and his utopian intimations of a life without fear. Delicate in its explorations yet trenchant in judgement, Adorno's study in the end surprises all partisan expectation.

Author : Sarah Wagner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520942622
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Know Where He Lies written by Sarah Wagner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. To Know Where He Lies provides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society—for families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, the Bosnian political leadership (including Serb and Muslim), and international aims of social repair—probing the meaning of absence itself.

Author : Jane Wagner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060920718
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe written by Jane Wagner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of the Broadway play, captures the last twenty years of American culture

Author : John Deathridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254538
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner Beyond Good and Evil written by John Deathridge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection provides us with that rarest of objects: a genuinely new book on Wagner. Virtually every page offers fresh perspectives, some of them mined from the most unlikely of sources; indeed, the sheer eclecticism of the book, its willingness to range widely and irreverently through both popular and elite culture, is one of its greatest strengths."—Roger Parker, author of Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio "John Deathridge is one of the most authoritative, widely-regarded Wagner scholars around in any language. Few can match his command of scholarship and primary sources, and no one else knows how to put them to such clever, provocative uses. In addition, Deathridge enjoys an impressive range of critical, historical, and literary reference. The writing is consistently lively and engaging. The collection will provide a welcome change of diet for those tired of the usual Wagnerian fare. This is a welcome contribution, indeed."—Thomas Grey, author of Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts

Author : Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Wagner written by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gottfried Wagner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312264048
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Wagners written by Gottfried Wagner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner chronicles his family's itinerary with National Socialism, from his great-grandfather's anti-Semitic pamphlets to his father's, uncle's and grandparents' close relationship with Adolf Hitler. The discovery of his family's past led him on a crusade to examine the hatred and racism he knew growing up in Bayreuth. 16-page photo insert.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944544
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagnerism written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192840127
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Wagner written by Bryan Magee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer. Bryan Magee presents a penetrating analysis of Wagner's work, concentrating on how his sensational and deeply erotic music uniquely expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He examines not only Wagner's music and detailed stage directions but also the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, as well as shedding new light on his anti-semitism and the way in which the Nazis twisted his theories to suit their own purposes. Outlining the astonishing range and depth of Wagner's influence on our culture, Magee reveals how profoundly he continues to shock and inspire musicians, poets, novelists, painters, philosophers, and politicians today.

Author : Philip Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199839797
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding an Ending written by Philip Kitcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the heart of Wagner's Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, authority, and judgment are explored and tested as it unfolds. As they journey across its sweeping musical-dramatic landscape, Kitcher and Schacht lead us to the central concern of the Ring--the problem of endowing life with genuine significance that can be enhanced rather than negated by its ending, if the right sort of ending can be found. The drama originates in Wotan's quest for a transformation of the primordial state of things into a world in which life can be lived more meaningfully. The authors trace the evolution of Wotan's efforts, the intricate problems he confronts, and his failures and defeats. But while the problem Wotan poses for himself proves to be insoluble as he conceives of it, they suggest that his very efforts and failures set the stage for the transformation of his problem, and for the only sort of resolution of it that may be humanly possible--to which it is not Siegfried but rather Br?nnhilde who shows the way. The Ring's ending, with its passing of the gods above and destruction of the world below, might seem to be devastating; but Kitcher and Schacht see a kind of meaning in and through the ending revealed to us that is profoundly affirmative, and that has perhaps never been so powerfully and so beautifully expressed.