Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- 15 Music Criticism in the United States and Canada up to the Second World War
- 16 Music Criticism in Portugal: Towards an Overview
- 17 Spanish Music Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Writing Music History in Real Time
- 18 Critical Battlegrounds in the French Third Republic
- 19 British Music Criticism, 1890–1945
- 20 Music Criticism in Norway
- 21 Aesthetic Conservatism and Politics in German-Language Music Criticism, 1900–1945
- 22 Music Criticism in Hungary until the Second World War
- 23 The ‘People’ in Czech and Slovak Music Criticism
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
21 - Aesthetic Conservatism and Politics in German-Language Music Criticism, 1900–1945
from Part IV - Entering the Twentieth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2019
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- 15 Music Criticism in the United States and Canada up to the Second World War
- 16 Music Criticism in Portugal: Towards an Overview
- 17 Spanish Music Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Writing Music History in Real Time
- 18 Critical Battlegrounds in the French Third Republic
- 19 British Music Criticism, 1890–1945
- 20 Music Criticism in Norway
- 21 Aesthetic Conservatism and Politics in German-Language Music Criticism, 1900–1945
- 22 Music Criticism in Hungary until the Second World War
- 23 The ‘People’ in Czech and Slovak Music Criticism
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Time and again studies of German-language music criticism at the fin de siècle, but also during the Weimar Republic, the First Austrian Republic and both World Wars, have shown that politics influenced critics or that critics wished to influence politics. And yet the mechanism in place differed vastly in the respective historical contexts, often in unexpected ways. Critical discourse did not necessarily reflect either the political view of the author or the political milieu of the performance and review. This chapter focuses on the clash between rhetoric and politics, not to diminish the significance of ideology in the interpretation of critical discourse, but to understand the more complex ways that music critics both responded to political pressure and pursued their own ideological course.
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- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism , pp. 408 - 423Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019