Myles Jackson, “Engineers, Scientists, Musicians, and the Trautonium in Berlin in the 1930s”

Myles Jackson, Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University
Given the political climate in Germany after the rise of fascism, one might have thought that the Nazis would dismiss all aspects of new musical genres as being “degenerate.” In actuality, the contrary proved to be case, as the trautonium and its various instantiations were promoted during the Third Reich.