Introduction : bourgeois pasts and socialist futures
Constructing the canon. Writing the nation ; A case of Wagner
Critiquing the canon. Late Beethoven and late socialism ; The romantic revival and the search for utopia ; Staging late socialism : Ruth Berghaus and the German opera tradition
Epilogue : art after socialism.
Composing the canon in the German Democratic Republic : narratives of nineteenth-century music by Elaine Kelly. ISBN 9780199998098. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.