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Degenerate Music Exhibition
Degenerate music (german: Entartete Musik, link=no, ) was a label applied in the 1930s by the government of Nazi Germany to certain forms of music that it considered harmful or decadence, decadent. The Nazi government's concerns about degenerate music were a part of its larger and better-known campaign against degenerate art (german: Entartete Kunst, link=no). In both cases, the government attempted to isolate, discredit, discourage, or ban the works. Racial emphasis Jewish composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler were disparaged and condemned by the Nazis. In Leipzig, a bronze statue of Mendelssohn was removed. The regime commissioned music to replace his incidental music to ''A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Though the Nazis wanted to discredit Jewish artists because of their ethnicity, they also wanted to have a better reason . The excuse was that some music was "anti-German" and that was why some songs needed to be banned . The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entartete Musik Poster
(), the grammatical gender, feminine form of the German language adjective (), is a word which described an important part of the Nazi ideology.In modern German, the word is taboo due to this Nazi association. See Most often translated as degenerate art, degenerate or , the word is most often used in English to evoke Nazi Germany: * — degenerate art; * — degenerate music; * Degenerate Art exhibition, an infamous exhibition of art the Nazis deemed “degenerate”; or * Nazi plunder, Art looted by the Nazis during World War II. It may also be used in reference to things that preceded the Nazi concept of “degenerate art”: * the decadent movement, much of the art of which would be labeled by the Nazis * Degeneration (Nordau), ''Degeneration'' () by Max Nordau (1892) References {{Disambiguation Nazi terminology Nazi culture German words and phrases German art Art controversies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |