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The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.
Opera
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Sound Matters
Working across established disciplines & methodological divides, these essays investigate the ways in which texts, artists, & performers in all kinds of media have utilized sound materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural & national identity.
German History and German Identity
Uwe Johnson's major novel, Jahrestage, is recognized as one of the most important and ambitious works of post-war German literature. The core to this novel is remembrance, and Jahrestage is a stunning requiem for the victims of twentieth-century German history. D.G. Bond concentrates on the text, analysing the novel and the calendar form of this work, and paying particular attention to the ways in which even the minutest details of Johnson's narrative reveal its historical themes. The author discusses Johnson's poetics, offers readings of his other major works, and considers the most recent trends in Johnson reception. He shows how an uncompromising view of German identity after the crimes of the Third Reich constitutes the very heart of Johnson's work.
Yes, We Love This Land
An absorbing tale of intrigue set during World War II, Yes, We Love This Land tells the story of a German family attempting to flee Hitler's clutches. Author Daniel Reed spins a fascinating web of action and suspense After emigrating from Germany to Norway to escape Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, the Wagner family find themselves caught in the middle of Germany's unprovoked invasion of Norway. Desiring only to be left alone, they instead become involved in Norway's fight against the occupying Germans. Bernhard and Klara try to shelter their four precious children from the nightmare of Nazi occupation, but one by one the family members are drawn into the conflict. Burning for revenge, youngest son Paul joins the ranks of the deadly German SS, intent on sabotage and assassination back in their homeland. When the SS targets Jordana Schultz, a young member of the German Underground, for capture, Paul saves her life. But he must leave her behind when the Germans send him back to Norway. Now his greatest chance for revenge stands before him-and time is running out.
The Mordecai Ring
Dieter Wagner, a typical American student with core values earned over the years, is suddenly whisked away from the United States and forced to live in Nazi Germany. Since he has never been naturalized, having been brought to Germany at an early age, he becomes prey to a subversive Nazi organization bent on bringing him back as a German national. He becomes ensnared in a sex trap and moves to Germany. For the next seven years, he becomes part of Nazi Germany, where his allegiance is tested. Because of his excellent academic standing, he is treated well and, eventually, enters the Wehrmacht, where he does extremely well. He gradually sees the evil in effect by the Nazis as their anti-Semitic ...
Choral Fantasies
Most histories of nineteenth-century music portray 'the people' merely as an audience, a passive spectator to the music performed around it. Yet, in this reappraisal of choral singing and public culture, Minor shows how a burgeoning German bourgeoisie sang of its own collective aspirations, mediated through the voice of celebrity composers. As both performer and idealized community, the chorus embodied the possibilities and limitations of a participatory, national identity. Starting with the many public festivals at which the chorus was a featured participant, Minor's account of the music written for these occasions breaks new ground not only by taking seriously these often-neglected works, but also by showing how the contested ideals of German nationhood suffused the music itself. In situating both music and festive culture within the milieu of German bourgeois liberals, this study uncovers new connections between music and politics during a century that sought to redefine both spheres.
