[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

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Sure you can read Wagner's politics off the surface of the Ring cycle. Not so in hearing much the music, you have to see it performed, but this was Gesamtkunst, meant to be seen as well as heard. It's especially notable in Siegfried and in the non-Ring work Parsifal (a truely readful work). There's argument about whether it's obvious in the Meistersinger.

--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


> From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 12:43 PM
> At 12:41 AM 1/15/2009, Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> > If nobody had told you Wagner's politics, could
> you tell?
> 
> 
> You're being difficult again.  You can't tell Miles
> Davis was a wife-beater by listening to Kind of Blue.  But
> finding that out changes things..
> 
> 
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