Necessity of Music

Celia Applegate is the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in History at Vanderbilt University.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPART I: PLACESChapter 1 How German Is It?Chapter 2 Music in PlaceChapter 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of NationsChapter 4 Music at the FairsPART II: PEOPLEChapter 5 Mendelssohn on the RoadChapter 6 The Internationalism of Nationalism in the Writings of A. B. Marx.Chapter 7 Schumann’s German NationChapter 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms’ Hamburg.PART III: PUBLIC AND PRIVATEChapter 9 What Difference does a Nation Make?Chapter 10 Men with TrombonesChapter 11 Women’s WagnerChapter 12 The Past and Present of Hausmusik in the Third ReichChapter 13 To be or not to be Wagnerian in Riefenstahl’s FilmsChapter 14 Saving Music

"[Applegate] combines the interpretive tools of both historian and musicologist – methodologically, she writes as both, and the readership of this book should encompass both - and she forges an interpretive approach that draws the familiar and the unexpected together." - Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago (American Historical Review, Feb 2019) "Focused on the rich contexts of music, rather than on the musical texts themselves (that is, the scores), these essays are essential for scholars interested in the cultural history of music and German national identity across the past three centuries."- Tegan Niziol, University of Toronto (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)