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Hancock reviews Brahms and the German Spirit by Daniel Beller-McKenna.
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Brahms and the German Spirit
Brahms and the German Spirit. By Daniel Beller-McKenna. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. [xi, 243 p. ISBN 0-674-01318-2. $49.95.] Illustrations, music examples, index, notes.
Daniel Beller-McKenna has set out to correct what he sees as a deficiency in Brahms scholarship of the post-World War II period, namely the failure to acknowledge the composer's patriotism-his Germanness-because of a fear that his reputation and the reception of his music might be tainted with Nazi-style nationalism; thus the "universalistic assessments" of ...See the full content of this document
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