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David Imhoof is Professor of History at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Bloomsbury Press recently published his textbook So, About Modern Europe: A Conversational History from the Enlightenment to the Present. He is the author of Becoming a Nazi Town (Michigan, 2013) and co-editor of a special edition of Colloquia Germanica (2016) on sound studies. He is currently writing a history of the German record industry. Imhoof also directs the Music and Sound Studies Network for the German Studies Association.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesForewordCelia ApplegateAcknowledgementsIntroductionMargaret Eleanor MenningerPART I: FOUNDATIONSChapter 1. The Play’s the Thing: Schiller, Wagner, and GesamtkunstwerkNicholas VazsonyiChapter 2. From the Gesamtkunstwerk to the Music DramaSanna PedersonChapter 3. Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of GesamtkunstwerkAnthony J. SteinhoffPART II: ARTICULATIONSChapter 4. Epic GesamtkunstwerkJoy H. CalicoChapter 5. Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus StageMelissa TriminghamChapter 6. Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Hanns Eisler’s Nuit et BrouillardAmy Lynn WlodarskiChapter 7. Reconciling the “Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters”: Wagner, Dance, and “Song-Ballets”, Set to Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte LiederWayne Heisler, Jr.PART III: INSPIRATIONSChapter 8. The “Translucent (Not: Transparent)” GesamtglaswerkJenny AngerChapter 9. Quiet Audience, Roaring Crowd: The Aesthetics of Sound and the Traces of Bayreuth in Kuhle Wampe and Triumph of the WillTheodore F. RippeyChapter 10. The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945Julia Goodwin and Margaret Eleanor MenningerChapter 11. Consuming Voices: Musical Film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of Mass CultureDavid ImhoofAfterword: Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic SpaceKevin S. AmidonBibliographyIndex

“Contributors are deft in negotiating and teasing out how aspects of the Gesamtkunstwerk shaped the German cultural landscape and at the same time mirrored the changing nature of politics and consumerism. This collection will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians interested in all aspects of German culture.” • Choice