Undertones of Insurrection

A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the recipient of the modern work is also acquainted

Marc Weiner

1: Music in the Modern Imagination: The Polemics of Hans Pfitzner; 2: Music and Repression: Death in Venice; 3: Mozart, Jazz, and the Dissolution of the Bourgeois Personality: Steppenwolf; 4: Democracy versus Music Drama: Verdi, Palestrina , and Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man; 5: Music and the Enlightenment Tradition: The Magic Flute, The Woman without a Shadow, and Rhapsody: A Dream Novel; 6: "Air from Another Planet": Beyond Polarities in Doctor Faustus