The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek and Hindemith: Politics and the Ideology of the Artist
- Author: Taylor-Jay, Claire
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction: The relationship of artist and society: historical perspectives
- Artist and society in the early 20th century
- Artist-operas as self-(re)presentation
- Precursors of the 20th-century artist-opera
- The artist-opera and politics
- Pfitzner, Palestrina, and the nonpolitical composer: The context of Palestrina
- Political conservatism c. World War I
- Conservative politics and art (1): Thomas Mann's Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen
- Conservative politics and art (2): Pfitzner's aesthetics
- Conservatism in Palestrina
- The character of Palestrina as 'nonpolitical'
- The Council of Trent as 'political'
- Krenek spielt auf: Jonny, Jazz and the modern composer: The context of Jonny spielt auf: politics and culture in the Weimar Republic
- Americanism and politics
- Americanism, mass culture and jazz
- Krenek and the meaning of popular music
- The influence of Paul Bekker
- Artists and society in Jonny spielf auf
- Max's transformation
- Krenek and Jonny spielf auf
- Painting and politics in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler: The context of Mathis der Maler: Germany in the 1930s
- Aspects of national socialist ideology
- Hindemith's aesthetics
- Artist and society in Mathis der Maler
- Hindemith and the Third Reich
- Conclusion: artistic identity as performative
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.