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 Play this game recently? | Determine the legacy of Wagner's musical dramas in the 1920s culture wars as an attendee at the Bayreuth Festival. Despite being recognized as one of the most influential composers of his day, Wagner left behind him a fraught legacy that was open to interpretation. This game centers on the ideological and culture clashes that have surrounded Wagner during and after his lifetime. Some of these conflicts are overt and political: revolutionary versus reactionary, cosmopolitan versus nationalist, left-wing versus right-wing. But his legacy also splintered into other unexpected directions: American westerns, early LGBTQ+ advocacy, feminism, and mysticism. As an attendee of the reinauguration of the Bayreuth Festival in 1924, you have a chance to stake a claim for the Meister's influence in the new century by getting your chosen musical drama on the agenda and writing a review. To win is to define how Wagner will be remembered; to lose is to watch an alternative revisionist interpretation take hold. |
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Chad Curtis Dr. Chad Curtis is a professor of data science at Nevada State University. After completing his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Washington, he used his background in data science to help a fledging data science get off the ground in Henderson, NV where he teaches programming and statistics courses. In a highly interdisciplinary campus, he has had the chance to author Reacting games in a variety of disciplines including math, statistics, physics, chemistry, and visual media." |
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