The Viennese Waltz
Decadence and the Decline of Austria’s Unconscious
Abstract
Satiricized by Strauss II to highlight the deceptive aristocratic class, under Schoenberg, Mahler, and Webern’s pens the waltz became the pivot between the conscious and unconscious, forcing a paralytic “second state” analogous with the stagnation of the Habsburg Empire. The Viennese Waltz shows how, between 1864 – 1928, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificeto the link between man and nature and between Viennese and “Other.” Hood wields the Freudian concepts of the uncanny and the doppelgänger to explain this revolution from the simple signification of a dance to the psychological anxiety of a subject’s place in society.
Schlagworte
Ländler Austrian studies Freud in music f Freud uncanny fin-de-siècle Vienna narrative topic theory viennese operetta waltz- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 1–6 Introduction 1–6
- 27–44 Chapter 2: Evolution of Viennese Cultural-Historical Topics: Romance, Freud and Authenticity 27–44
- 177–182 Conclusion 177–182
- 183–194 Bibliography 183–194
- 195–202 Index 195–202
- 203–204 About the Author 203–204