Music in the Third Reich

Delineates continuity and change in the field of music from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi era, and traces the complex relationship between Nazi musical ideology and its practical application in the Nazi state. Music policy between 1933-45 was riddled with ambiguities, compromises, and inconsistencies of outlook, most clearly seen in the disputes between party ideologue Alfred Rosenberg and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Examines Nazi racial policy and state control regarding music in the areas of radio and recording, music publishing, opera, symphony orchestras, music literature and the musical press. On anti-Jewish policies see ch. 3 (pp. 39-81), "Anti-Semitism, " which discusses the removal of Jews from the music profession, the establishment and functions of the Kulturbund deutscher Juden, antisemitic musical propaganda, and the Aryanization of music. Pp. 267-280 contain a detailed chronology of developments in the music field between January 1933-August 1944, including many anti-Jewish instances.