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Alex Ross: "Wagnerism: Art And Politics In The Shadow Of Music"

In his new book Wagnerism, Alex Ross, author and the music critic of The New Yorker, examines Richard Wagner’s extraordinarily broad and enduring influence on the arts, intellectual life, and politics, from the mid-nineteenth century to our own time. He addresses a vast range of figures and texts, from George Eliot to Philip K. Dick, from Thomas Mann to Anselm Kiefer, from Baudelaire to Bugs Bunny. The book observes two contradictory tendencies in tandem: on the one hand, a wild proliferation of interpretations and reactions, including feminist, Jewish, gay, African-American, and occult/mystical Wagnerisms; and, on the other, an ideological narrowing, with a far-right, racist, nationalist viewpoint becoming ever more dominant. How can the same composer give inspiration to Theodor Herzl and Adolf Hitler, WEB Du Bois and Houston Stewart Chamberlain? In this talk, Ross explores some of the mysteries of the Wagnerian phenomenon, promising no simple answers.