Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

Alex Ross

784 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction art history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the...

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informative 88%
challenging 72%
reflective 48%
dark 20%
hopeful 8%
tense 8%
adventurous 4%
emotional 4%
funny 4%
sad 4%

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medium 24%

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