Wagner in context /

Wagner in context /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xxiv, 459 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Composers in context Composers in context.
Subject:	Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Influence. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Appreciation. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 Art appreciation Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Music score Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13472247

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Other authors / contributors:	Trippett, David, 1980- editor.
ISBN:	9781108836463 1108836461 9781108819084 1108819087 9781108871150
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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."--
Other form:	Online version: Wagner in context [1.] New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781108871150

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xxiv, 459 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781108836463 1108836461 9781108819084 1108819087 9781108871150