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Modris Eksteins presented a tour-de-force interpretation of the political, social and cultural climate of the early twentieth century. His sources were not merely the more traditional sources of the historian: political, military and economic accounts; rather, he drew from the rich, heady brew of art, music, dance, literature and philosophy as well. Eksteins examined ways in which life influenced, imitated, and even became art. Eksteins argues that life and art, as well as death, became so intermeshed as to be indistinguishable from one another.
The title of the book, The Rites of Spring, and the plunge into the world of the Ballet Russe in the first chapter, made clear that Eksteins intended to use Stravinsky’s ballet as an image for thinking about The Great War. (The ballet itself was a microcosm of war and the events surrounding the presentation of this ballet involved a war of a different sort.) He showed that, just as Anglo/Franco music and dance were stagnant and ripe for being changed, so were the political and social constructs of those nations heavy with the accumulated weight of their own self-importance. Britain, long self-satisfied, set herself as guardian of the status quo. Although she purported to be a champion of liberty and democracy, this was only true when it suited her goals. One did not need to look far to find examples of British resolutely and unashamedly trampling opposition when she felt it in her interest to do so. France, on the other hand, although supremely confident of herself in matters of taste – be it art, music, fashion or literature – had never developed a clear and exact idea of itself as a political entity. After the defeat of the Second Empire, she entered into a period of self-doubt and hesitancy.
Eksteins contends that, just as Russia was able to shock the world of dance / music with her avant-garde ideas, which were free from fetters of the expected, thus Germany also fulfilled...
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