The Viennese Waltz: Decadence and the Decline of Austria's Unconscious - Hardcover

by Danielle Hood (Author)

This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artifice--covering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the time--to the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and "Other."

Author Biography

Danielle Hood received her PhD in musicology from the University of Leeds.