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Article: Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the end of Hitler's Reich.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 1999
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Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the end of Hitler's Reich, by Pamela M. Potter. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. xx, 364 pp. $40.00 U.S.
Over somewhat more than a decade there has been growing historical awareness that the transition from Weimar Republic to the Third Reich involved significant continuities as well as ruptures. Particularly in matters of culture, although "Aryanization" proceeded rapidly, and specific Nazi emphases emerged, main lines of development remained rooted in older traditions. Nazi achievements in everything from literature and visual arts to motion pictures blended genre ...