Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, & the Americans, 1945-1953

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2005 - 325 pages
Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwngler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justifi
 

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Introduction
1
1 Preparing for Music Control
12
Denazification and Revolution 1945
44
3 Reforming Music Culture 19451946
96
Wilhelm Furtwängler and the End of Denazification
128
The Retreat from Reform 19471950
167
American Artists in Cold War Germany 19481953
205
A New Day in Beulah
253
Notes
265
Bibliography
303
Index
317
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David Monod is professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He is author of Store Wars: Retailers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939.

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