The Twisted Muse - Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich (Paperback, Revised)

Michael Kater's work probes the relationship of music to society and politics in the Nazi regime, 1933-1945. It addresses the question of whether or not the Nazi regime, which utilized music and musicians for the regime's own political purposes, controlled the musicians and the music, or whether these remained in some measure autonomous. A major question is also answered in these pages: how did the creative genius survive?