Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in postwar Europe
By: Joy H. Calico
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
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780520281868
Subjects: Appreciation
Description: "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"--from publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: West Germany : retrenchment versus A survivor from Warsaw; title: Austria : homecoming via A Survivor from Warsaw; title: Norway : performing remembrance with A Survivor from Warsaw; title: East Germany : antifascism and A Survivor from Warsaw; title: Poland : cultural diplomacy through A Survivor from Warsaw; title: Czechoslovakia : a survivor as A Survivor from Warsaw.