The Viennese Waltz: Decadence and the Decline of Austria’s Unconscious

Danielle Hood

doi:10.5771/9781793653932

Summary

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.

Keywords

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5392-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5393-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 204
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. Notes No access
1. High Class Topics No access
2. 1. Dances No access
3. Notes No access
1. Liberalism and Rationalism No access
2. 1. 1. Freud’s Oedipal Complex: the Father/Son Conflict of the Failure of Liberalism No access
    2. Psychology in Literature No access
3. The Rational and Psychological as Topics No access
4. Authenticity No access
5. Romance No access
6. 1. Nationalism as Exotic “Other” No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. ‘When Vienna gets gay, the situation is truly grave’ No access
  2. 1. The Polka No access
    2. Style Hongrois No access
    3. Signification No access
2. Notes No access
1. Die Fledermaus and Walzertraum: Deception as Austrian Identity No access
2. Verismo and the Double in Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe No access
3. Notes No access
1. From Ombra to the Uncanny No access
2. Castration Complex No access
3. Time Shards No access
4. Non-texted Topical Narrative in Op. 16, No. 1. No access
5. The Anxiety of Alienation, or ‘Entry into Civilisation’ No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Nachtmusik II and IV No access
  2. The Beginning and the End: I and V No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. Third Symphony, Movement II No access
  2. Fourth Symphony, Movement II No access
  3. Fifth Symphony, Movement III No access
  4. Sixth Symphony, Movement II No access
  5. Ninth Symphony, Movement II No access
2. Notes No access
1. First Movement No access
2. Second Movement No access
3. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 183 - 194
Index No access Pages 195 - 202
About the Author No access Pages 203 - 204