Pamela Potter
Music, 5524 Humanities
Office: 608-263-1906
pmpotter@wisc.edu
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2008 / 2009 - Pamela Potter (Music) is the author of three entries on Richard Wagner that appeared in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, an essay on Wagner in the Third Reich for the Cambridge Companion to Richard Wagner, and a chapter on German scholarly engagement with Jewish music for the book Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New. Other recent publications include articles on the concept of race in pre-Nazi musical discourse, on the “Germanization” of the German musical life in the Third Reich, and on the historiography of Nazi arts, music and musicology. She is the author of Most German of the Arts, which appeared in English and in German, and co-editor of Music and German National Identity. Major works in progress are a book on musical life in twentieth-century Berlin and a book on Nazi aesthetics in the visual and performing arts. She organized sessions and delivered papers at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, the German Studies Association, and the American Musicological Society, most recently with a segment devoted to Jewish popular music. In recent years she has been a guest speaker for symposia at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
