German folk standards proved farther from the people than modernist art

Evidence

The same people who always had blamed intellectual cliques for modernism in the arts, remained themselves a clique whose folk ideas proved to be even more distant from the life of the people than the most esoteric products of expressionism and surrealism. Paradoxical as it sounds, the Germans were more willing to fight Hitler’s battles than to listen to the plays and operas of his lackeys. When the war catastrophe put an end to the remnants of public German musical life, it merely executed a judgement that was silently spoken since the Hitler gang had established its dictatorship over culture. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1646

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nazi folk ideology alienated Germans more than modernist art did — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1646; Genuine folk culture was colonized and extinguished by commodification from the midnineteenth century — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 192

Broader Connections

• Nazi folk ideology alienated Germans more than modernist art did #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1646
• Genuine folk culture was colonized and extinguished by commodification from the midnineteenth century #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 192