Full Description
Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of historical topics, from spa culture to racial theory, sentient bodies to stage technology, America to Spain, it casts an eye forward to contexts of Wagner's ongoing reception, from video gaming to sound recording, Israel to Friedrich Kittler, and twenty-first century warfare. The collection brings together an international cast of leading authorities and new voices. Its 42 short chapters offer a reader-friendly way into Wagner studies, with authoritative studies of central topics set alongside emerging new fields. It sheds new light on previously neglected individuals such as Minna Wagner, Theodor Herzl and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and investigates the global circulation of Wagner's works, his approach to money, and the controversies that continue to accompany him.
Contents
Part I. Place: 1. Paris Katharine Ellis; 2. Dresden Thomas S. Grey; 3. Zurich and Lucerne Chris Walton; 4. Italy Ellen Lockhart; 5. London Barry Millington; 6. Bayreuth as city: a wagnerian chronology Sven Friedrich; 7. America Leon Botstein; 8. Spain in the cosmos of Richard Wagner Dieter Borchmeyer; Part II. People: 9. Franz Liszt Joanne Cormac; 10. Nietzsche and Wagner: the logic of contradiction Federico Celestini; 11. Wagner, schopenhauer and the world as a phantasmagoria Robert Wicks; 12. Assessing wilhelmine schröder-devrient: influence, genre, and voice Anno Mungen; 13. Cosima wagner Eva Rieger; 14. The wagner family: rebellion, honour, aftermath John Deathridge; Part III. Politics, Ideas & Bodies: 15. National politics Tim Blanning; 16. Revolutionary politics Mark Berry; 17. World drama. Wagner's hegelian heritage Günter Zöller; 18. Towards an 'ideal' feminine Eva Rieger; 19. Health & wellness Holly Watkins; 20. Sexuality & social mores Barry Millington; 21. Sentient bodies David Trippett; 22. Racial theory George Williamson; Part IV. Life, Language & the Ancient World: 23. Wagner's finances Sven Friedrich; 24. Wagner's apprenticeship Anna Stoll Knecht; 25. Wagner's mendacious humanism: wagnerian rhetoric between nature and the human Kirsten Paige; 26. Declaiming wagner: between genesis and historical performance practice Martin Knust; 27. The german study of india and buddhism Douglas McGetchin; 28. Greek drama in its nineteenth-century reception Michael Ewans; Part V. Music & Performance: 29. Orchestration Edward Reeve; 30. Wagner and music analysis: Siegfried and the rhinemaidens Patrick McCreless; 31. The scene of grand opera Barbara Eichner; 32. Wagner on the move Charlotte Bentley; 33. Stage technology Gundula Kreuzer; 34. Historic staging (1876-1976) Patrick Carnegy; Part VI. Reception: 35. Regietheater in performance Clemens Risi; 36. Twentieth-century reception and anti-semitisim Pamela Potter; 37. Bayreuth as idea: chamberlain, wolzogen, hitler Udo Bermbach; 38. Performing wagner in israel: an affront or a tribute? Victor Nefkens; 39. Nineteenth-century music criticism Alexander Wilfing; 40. Wotan's stormtroopers and the total art machine: kittler's ring of the nibelung Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; 41. Sound recording Laura Tunbridge; 42. The wagnerian erotics of video game music Tim Summers; Further reading; Select bibliography; Index.
