MUMH 4800 Nazism, Judaism, and the Politics of Classical Music in Germany

This course explores the connections between Nazi ideology, politics, anti-Semitism, and classical music in Nazi Germany.

The course-work will encompass both weekly reading and listening assignments, one in-class presentation, and three essays on assigned topics. The final examination in essay format will cover material of the course.

Preliminary Select Bibliography

Peter Gay, Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Master and Victims in Modernist Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978

Bryan Gilliam, Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1994.

Sander Gilman, Jewish Self-hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1986.

___. Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Nancy A. Harrowitz and Barbara Hyans, eds., Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1995.

Timothy L. Jackson and Paul Hawkshaw, eds., Bruckner Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1997.

Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians and their Music in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford, 1997.

___. Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford, 1992.

Paul Lawrence Rose, Revolutionary Anti-Semitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

___. Wagner: Race and Revolution. New Haven: Yale, 1992.

Marc Weiner, Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination. Lincoln: Nebraska, 1995.

___. Undertones of Insurrection: Music, Politics & the Social Sphere in the Modern German Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.