The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

David Wyn Jones

The music of the Strauss family – Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard – enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family’s true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly showing that from Johann’s first engagements in the mid-1820s to the death of Eduard in 1916, the music making of the family was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a whole.

David Wyn Jones is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on music and musical life in Vienna, including biographies of Haydn (2009) and Beethoven (1998). The relationship between music and society in three different epochs is explored in Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 (2016).

At a glance

• Offers new and fascinating insights into Viennese musical life in the round, not just the Strauss family in isolation, and as such will be of interest to scholars working on nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury Vienna generally

• Incorporates much new scholarly work on the Strauss family members, mainly written in German, to bring revealing new insights to their lives, loves, work and achievements

• Rescues the Strauss family from the belittling category of composers of light music by arguing that the family’s achievements were as serious as anything done by the likes of Brahms, Mahler and Bruckneral

• Relates the family’s combined achievements to social and political changes in nineteenth-century Habsburg Vienna, and will thus have strong appeal to social as much as musical historians, as well as to historians of ideas

Graphic

ALEXA KOENIG ANDREA LAMPROS Graphic

Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives

Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives

Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros

UK publication July 2023

US publication July 2023

240 Pages

9781108995740 Paperback

£19.99 | $24.99 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance

• Provides practical tips for minimizing the risk of psychological harm from viewing graphic and other upsetting material online

• Distils the key takeaways from the latest research on how positive engagement with social media can contribute to social justice

• Summarizes the history and impact of iconic imagery that has helped shaped activism

Today, almost anyone can upload and disseminate newsworthy content online, which has radically transformed our information ecosystem. Yet this often leaves us exposed to content produced without ethical or professional guidelines. In Graphic, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros examine this dynamic and share best practices for safely navigating our digital world. Drawing on the latest social science research, original interviews, and their experiences running the world’s first university-based digital investigations lab, Koenig and Lampros provide practical tips for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of being online. In the wake of the global pandemic, they ask: How are people processing graphic news as they spend more time online? What practices can newsrooms, social media companies, and social justice organizations put in place to protect their employees from vicarious trauma and other harms? Timely and urgent, Graphic helps us navigate the unprecedented psychological implications of the digital age.

Alexa Koenig is co-Faculty Director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. She co-founded the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and is an author of Hiding in Plain Sight (2016) and Digital Witness (2020).

Andrea Lampros is the Communications Director at the Berkeley School of Education. She is the former Associate Director at the Human Rights Center, co-founder of the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab, and the Resiliency Manager of the lab.