Denazifying Carmina Burana: Chall...
Denazifying Carmina Burana: Challenging A Pervasive Poisonous Cantata
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Music and Global Politics by Adam J Sacks
S5 · E3
Aug 20, 2026
37:51
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Today yet another chapter in musical denazification, perhaps the most popular place of classical music in the world Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. This is the second epsiode where we feature the new technology of an electronically generated dialogue. If you find it convincing and compelling please stay tuned for the entire essay after the dialogue. Happy listening ahead.

Cultural denazification is left an ad hoc affair, the work of enterprising artists shoring up where

the state has fallen short. “Carmina” is particularly unwieldy as a “classical” text now recognized

primarily as part of commercial and entertainment media. But some new rend ... 

Keywords
African-American
Germany
Degenerate Music
Nazism
Israel
Civil Rights
Carl Orff
Classical Music
Opera Philadelphia
WEB DuBois