Nationalism, Chauvinism and Racism as Reflected in European Musical Thought and in Compositions from the Interwar Period

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Andrzej Tuchowski

Nationalism, Chauvinism and Racism as Reflected in European Musical Thought and in Compositions from the Interwar Period

Volume 14

IV

The National and Universal Dimensions of Music in the Aesthetic Thought of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Karol SZYMANOWSKI Mm dE OO ee 21

The Racist Foundations of the National-Socialist

Thought on Music an. 51 1 “Was ist Deutsch in Deutscher Musik?”: Concerning the 2 Judentum in Musik - Around the Musical Activity of the Anti- Race initiate Gd n 67 2.1 Organic Harmonic-Tonal Unity 74 Das Volk, die Volksgemeinschaft, der Volkskomponist: The Concept of the “Community of Blood" and the Debate Concerning National-Socialist Normative Musical Aesthetics nenn Quse Gad an MU P Ok 83 Between Thought and Action: Nazi Racial Doctrines and the Consequences of Their Implementation in the Context of the Reactions of Europe's Music Circles in the 19308 ————————M—M— 103 1 Journalism and the Music Environment in Interwar Poland: *... Far-Reaching Caution Is Recommended”... 104

2 Protecting Elitism: Szymanowski, the Grand Polish Aristocratic Traditions and the Jewish Question... 113

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3 The Polish “Rassenkunde”: Józef Reiss and His Research on “The

Jewish Spirit in Music"... oett tette tte nee ee ie anna 116

6 The Reactions of British Music Critics, the Appeasement and the British-German Policy for the Musical Cooperation of "Germanic Sister Nations" u... 133

7 The Ideological Counter-Offensive of British Great War

8 1938 - The Breakthrough Year: Benjamin Britten's and Michael Tippetts Politically Involved Works in Relation to Events in the Third Reich... tere teer ame nre nee ire pe 149

V. The Italian "National Awakening" and Historical-Imperial Nationalism. Art in the Context of the Fascist Myth of

OVI ei 161 1 Modern Art or Degenerate Art? Modernism and Its National 2 The Musical Apologies of Rome in the Service of Fascist

2.2 "Tutto che al mondo é civile, grande, augusto, egli é romano ancora!" Ottorino Respighi's Roman Trilogy and the

2.3 From Rimsky-Korsakov to Giannotto Bastianelli: Transformations in Respighis Aesthetic Stance on

His Way to the “National Revival”... 182 2.4 Prophetic Aspects: The Roman Trilogy in the National and International Context. ut tesa nahe 186

VI. From the Myth of Romanita to Fascist Racism: Italian Musical Thought in the Face of Political-Ideological Changes in the late 1930s u. ana 193

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VII. The “New Rome" Clashes with the “Third Greek

VIII. Postscript: The Decline of Racism and Chauvinism, "Crypto-Nationalism" and the Demythologisation of