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Chaos and Dancing Star: Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy.(Brief Article)
by Roy Pateman University Press of America, 367 pp. $47
There is a staggering amount of information in Roy Pateman's scholarly yet quirkily self-indulgent treatise on the politics and legacy of Richard Wagner. The English-born adjunct professor at UCLA seems to have read just about everything pertinent to Wagner in the English language, but his prolific knowledge is submerged in a sea of pretentious prose and academic gobbledygook that must daunt the most avid and learned Wagnerite. Just about every second sentence contains a citation within the text; there are hefty footnotes and a forty-six-page bibliography. Moreover, Pateman switches back and forth from third to first person at will, and his writing is filled with run-on sentences, misspellings, and punctuation that obscures rather than clarifies what he means to say.
Pateman barely discusses Wagner's music, assuming a high degree of familiarity with Wagner's oeuvre on the part of the reader. This is definitely not Wagner for sissies. The author contends that "the political content of Wagner's operas is partly the result of his deliberate political intention," that "his intensely personal vision has an important connection to the spirit of his age" and that "each of Wagner's operas has political implications that transcend both his intentions and the spirit of the age."
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