Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner?s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Series: Rethinking Austrian and German Music;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 2 July 2024
- ISBN 9781032390321
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages194 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 Illustrations, black & white; 29 Line drawings, black & white 625
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Short description:
Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersinger?s narrative.
MoreLong description:
Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner?s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera. The work?s significance as a touchstone of national culture survived even such troubling episodes as its public endorsement in 1933 as ?the most German of all German operas? by Joseph Goebbels or the rendition in previous years by audiences at Bayreuth of both national and Nazi-party anthems at the work?s culmination. This chequered reception history and apparent propensity for reinterpretation or reclamation has long fuelled debates over the socio-political meanings of Wagner?s musical narrative. On the question of Beckmesser, for instance, heated arguments have surrounded the existence of antisemitic stereotypes in the work as well as their possible indication of a racial-political dimension to Sachs?s restoration of Nuremberg society. Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersinger?s narrative. In four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, the book traces a critical potential within the opera?s construction of provincial and national identities and problematizes existing discourse around its depiction of race and gender.
MoreTable of Contents:
Music examples
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Nationalism and the aesthetic periphery
1 Walther: Conservation and reinvention
2 Sachs: In pursuit of universality
3 Entr?acte: On metareference and metapolitics
4 Beckmesser: Constructions of otherness
5 Eva: Repression and autonomy
Conclusion: Towards a critical nationalism
References
Index
