Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich

McClatchie, Stephen, Canadian University Music Review

Pamela M. Potter. Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. xx, 364 pp. ISBN 0-300-07228-7 (hardcover).

The cover of Karl Grunsky's racist and anti-Semitic Kampf um deutsche Musik! (Stuttgart: Erhard Walther, 1933) provides an apt illustration of the title of Pamela Potter's study of German musicology, Most German of the Arts: a lyre, symbolising Music, is being pulled from a pool of muck and slime by the German Imperial flag. The idea of music being inherently German is an important theme of Potter's work, one she traces from Athanasius Kircher in the seventeenth …

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Publication information: Article title: Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich. Contributors: McClatchie, Stephen - Author. Journal title: Canadian University Music Review. Volume: 20. Issue: 1 Publication date: January 1, 1999. Page number: 161+. © Canadian University Music Society 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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