| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, & the Americans, 1945–1953. By David Monod. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvi, 325 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2944-7.)

The "nazification" of the arts in Germany has been the subject of important books by Michael Kater, Alan Steinweis, and others. David Monod picks up the story in 1945 in his study of American occupation policy and the German classical music establishment. He argues that despite contradictory policy objectives and the low priority the military government gave cultural issues, a corps of dedicated and largely competent officials "push[ed] through important structural reforms and encouraged new thinking about the freedom of the arts and how to ensure" it (p. 10), thus contributing to the democratization of western Germany. American officials were, however, less successful in barring deeply compromised figures from concert halls and in broadening the conservative musical tastes of conductors and audiences alike.

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