Wagner: Race and Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300067453)

It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a virulent anti-Semite, yet the composer has also been characterized as an idealistic revolutionary. In this fascinating book, Paul Lawrence Rose argues that for Wagner, as for many other Germans, the idea of revolution always contained a racial and antisemitic core. He offers fresh and stimulating interpretations of Wagner's music based on an analysis of their revolutionary and anti-Semitic elements. "An epoch-making study of Wagner's antisemitism-the most important work on the subject now available."-Barry Millington, New Statesman "A pioneering and realistic study."-Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Telegraph

Author: Paul Lawrence Rose
ISBN-10: 0300067453
ISBN-13: 9780300067453
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/1996
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.34w x 0.79d