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).

• 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