Books
wagner's ring cycle and the greeks
This book interrogates the ways in which Wagner uses Greek aesthetics to further his own ideological goals. It sees the Greeks through the lens of those scholars whose work influenced Wagner most, focusing on epic, lyric, and comedy, as well as Greek tragedy.
“full of stimulus for classicists, historians, and musicologists alike”
from bards to blackface, or how the minstrel changed his tune
My next book explores the cultural impact ofminstrels as they moved from the literature of 1750s Britain to the blackface stage in 1850s America.