YORK UNIVERSITY: Music & Nazism -- International Co Conference at York University.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 October 1999-YORK UNIVERSITY: Music & Nazism -- International Conference at York U. to explore music under ideological control (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:071099 TORONTO -- Like art, literature and film, music in Germany between 1933 - 1945, was subject to sweeping ideological control by the Nazis - witness Hitler's affinity for Wagner and the Nazi Party's aesthetic conceptions of music.

At an international conference entitled Music and Nazism to be held at York University, Fri., Oct. 15 - Sun., Oct. 17, 1999, the interrelationship between music and totalitarian ideology during the Third Reich will be critically examined by a host of leading scholars from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada. The...