| Contents |
The background: music and German society, 1918-1945 -- Musicologists on their role in modern German society -- The organization and reorganization of musicological scholarship -- Musicology in the university -- New opportunities outside the university, 1933-1945 -- The shaping of new methodologies -- Attempts to define "Germanness" in music -- Denazification and the German musicological legacy. |
| Abstract |
This book investigates the role played by German musicology in buttressing Nazi institutions and ideology. The author examines the social, economic, and intellectual factors that caused some German musical scholars to support with such fervor the ideological aims of the Nazis. She argues convincingly that many of the ideas that served the regime not only predated Hitler's rise to power but survived the Nazi period to influence the conception of music history--including that of American musical scholarship--down to the present time. |
| Local note | Little-315104--305131020149T |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index. |
| LCCN | 97050585 |
| ISBN | 0300072287 (alk. paper) |
