Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music Type:Paperback Vincent’s distinctive musical vision

Vincent’s distinctive musical vision

With their signature stripped-down two-piece sound

and hypnotic loops

Released:  08 Sep 2017

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music Type:Paperback Vincent’s distinctive musical visionAuthor: Alex Ross Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known