Entartete Musik

Here are entered collections of musical compositions labelled as "degenerate" and proscribed by National Socialist arts policies.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002010518
- info:lc/authorities/sh2002010518
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2002010518#concept
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Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Degenerate music
Broader Terms
- Music--20th century
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Entartete Musik, 1993 (Entartete Musik)
- found: New Grove dict. of music (Entartete Musik = degenerate music; term adopted by the Nazis during the 1920s to condemn modern culture that, according to Hitler, manifested symptoms of national decline. Thus atonal music, jazz and above all works by Jewish composers were branded as "degenerate," though in fact reactionary critics applied the term indiscriminately to a wide variety of styles from the avant garde to popular operetta, particularly if the composer was deemed politically or racially unacceptable to the regime)
- found: Penguin dict. of music, 1997 (Entartete Musik (Ger., "degenerate music"))
General Notes
- Here are entered collections of musical compositions labelled as "degenerate" and proscribed by National Socialist arts policies.
Change Notes
- 2002-09-30: new
- 2002-11-20: revised

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