Music and Nazism : art under tyranny, 1933-1945 / edited by Michael H. Kater and Albrecht Riethmüller.

Proceedings of a conference held at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, Oct. 14-17, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hitler's Wagner / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- National Socialist discussion on the "German quality" in music / Bernd Sponheuer -- Distorted sublime / Reinhold Brinkmann -- Aesthetic premises of a Nazi conception of music / Giselher Schubert -- Very German fate of a composer : Hans Pfitzner / Jens Malte Fischer -- Musical life in Berlin from Weimar to Hitler / Pamela M. Potter -- International with national emphasis / Joan Evans -- Hardly heroes / Guido Heldt -- Past and present of Hausmusik in the Third Reich / Celia Applegate -- Wagner research as "service to the people" / Stephen McClatchie -- Music publishing and the Nazis / Kim H. Kowalke -- Stefan Wolpe : broken sequences / Austin Clarkson -- In which camp is Austria? / Claudia Maurer Zenck -- Swiss music scene in the 1930s / Theo Mäusli -- Stefan Zweig and the fall of the Reich Music Chamber President, Richard Strauss / Albrecht Riethmüller -- Verklärte Nacht / David Monod.