TY - BOOK AU - Ross,Alex TI - Wagnerism: art and politics in the shadow of music SN - 9780374285937 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Wagner, Richard, KW - Opera KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Music and literature KW - Art and music KW - Motion pictures and music KW - Music criticism and reviews KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-728) and index; Prelude : Death in Venice -- Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring -- Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists -- Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America -- Grail Temple : Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner -- Holy German Art : The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna -- Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner -- Venusberg : Feminist and Gay Wagner -- Brünnhilde's Rock : Willa Cather and the Singer-Novel -- Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914 -- Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's Youth -- Ring of Power : Revolution and Russia -- Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The Waste Land, The Waves -- Siegfried's Death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann -- Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The Birth of a Nation to Apocalypse Now -- The Wound : Wagnerism After 1945 N2 - "A large-canvas narrative history, charting the impact of the cultural titan Wagner on art and politics. Ross will show how various artists--composers, novelists, poets, filmmakers--wrestled with the legacy of Wagner in the twentieth century"-- ER -