Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. TABLES ix
5. FOREWORD x
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiv
7. INTRODUCTION 1
8. I Foundations
9. CHAPTER 1 The Play’s the Thing Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk 21
10. CHAPTER 2 From Gesamtkunstwerk to Music Drama 39
11. CHAPTER 3 Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk 56
12. II Articulations
13. CHAPTER 4 Epic Gesamtkunstwerk 81
14. CHAPTER 5 Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage 95
15. CHAPTER 6 Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Hanns Eisler’s Nuit et Brouillard 115
16. CHAPTER 7 Reconciling the “Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters” Wagner, Dance, and Song-Ballets Set to Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder 133
17. III Inspirations
18. CHAPTER 8 The “Translucent (Not: Transparent)” Gesamtglaswerk 157
19. CHAPTER 9 Quiet Audience, Roaring Crowd: The Aesthetics of Sound and the Traces of Bayreuth in Kuhle Wampe and Triumph of the Will 183
20. CHAPTER 10 The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945 206
21. CHAPTER 11 Consuming Voices: Musical Film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of Mass Culture 228
22. AFTERWORD Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic Space 249
23. Select Bibliography 259
24. INDEX 273