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Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe

Title: Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe / Joy H. Calico.
Author: Calico, Joy Haslam, 1965-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

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Description

xv, 254 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw--a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. A twelve-tone piece in three languages about the Holocaust, it was written for an American audience by a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, Schoenberg had immigrated to the United States and become an American citizen. This book investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Each case is unique, informed by individual geopolitical concerns, but this analysis also reveals common themes in anxieties about musical modernism, Holocaust memory and culpability, the coexistence of Jews and former Nazis, anti-Semitism, dislocation, and the presence of occupying forces on both sides of the Cold War divide"--

Series Statement

California studies in 20th-century music ; 17
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies

Uniform Title

California studies in 20th-century music ; 17.
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.

Contents

West Germany : retrenchment versus A survivor from Warsaw -- Austria : homecoming via A Survivor from Warsaw -- Norway : performing remembrance with A Survivor from Warsaw -- East Germany : antifascism and A Survivor from Warsaw -- Poland : cultural diplomacy through A Survivor from Warsaw -- Czechoslovakia : a survivor as A Survivor from Warsaw.

Call Number

*PVO 14-234

ISBN

9780520281868 (hardback)
0520281861 (hardback)
0520957709 (e-book)
9780520957701 (e-book)
9780520957701 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013048526
40023526336

OCLC

861955216

Author

Calico, Joy Haslam, 1965- author.

Title

Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe / Joy H. Calico.

Publisher

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

California studies in 20th-century music ; 17

S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies

California studies in 20th-century music ; 17.

S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40023526336

Research Call Number

*PVO 14-234

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