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Arnold Schoenberg´s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
Joy H. Calico
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Description for Arnold Schoenberg´s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
Hardback. 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. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b/w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; AVC; AVGC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520281868
SKU
V9780520281868
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About Joy H. Calico
Joy H. Calico is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University and the author of Brecht at the Opera (UC Press).
Reviews for Arnold Schoenberg´s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
"Highly recommended. Yields rich, evocative insights into a period of modernist music making now receding from consciousness." CHOICE "Joy Calico, however, writes with an ease and fluidity that positively invite the reader to understand her ideas and observations. She takes one of Schoenberg's most important American works and uses it as a political barometer during the crucial post-war years of ... Read more