Del 17 - California Studies in 20th-Century Music

Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCalifornia Studies in 20th-Century Music
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520281868

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Musikböcker inom Kultur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Illustrations 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

"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 1948 to 1968. As concepts go, it is quite brilliant. Addressing Cold War cultural politics in Germany, Austria, Norway, Poland and Czechoslovakia using Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw clearly illuminates the political complexities of the time." -- Michael Haas Times Literary Supplement "Joy H. Calico's new book is an impressive work of cultural history... on its own, fascinating terms, Calico has written a book that will repay attention from a variety of readers." H-German