- 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Calico, Joy Haslam, 1965- author.
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
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.
