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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calico, Joy H., 1965-

Series:

California studies in 20th-century music ; 17.

California Studies in 20th-Century Music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Survivor from Warsaw.

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951--Appreciation--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, he wrote this twelve-tone piece about the Holocaust in three languages for an American audience. 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

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

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520957701

0520957709

OCLC:

870226359