Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Alex Ross
Like music? The music of today, classical and popular, is impossible without Wagner. Like history? Philosophy? Sociology? Novels? Movies? It’s all here. The western world from the 1860s turned to Wagner in so many ways (for good and ill), and still does.
MICHAEL O’HARE
Professor of the Graduate School
Goldman School of Public Policy
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