| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Series |
California studies in 20th-century music ; 17 |
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California studies in 20th-century music ; 17.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| 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 audi |
| Analysis |
20th century world history |
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a survivor in warsaw |
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anti semitism |
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arnold schoenberg |
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austria |
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austrian composer |
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cantata |
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chromatic scale |
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cold war |
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composer |
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cultural history |
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czechoslovakia |
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death camps |
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death |
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degenerate music |
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dodecaphony |
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east germany |
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geopolitical concerns |
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geopolitics |
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holocaust victims |
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holocaust |
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jewish composer |
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lens of performance |
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mass death |
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memory |
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music |
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musical modernism |
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nazi |
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norway |
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poland |
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postwar europe |
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reception studies |
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second world war |
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twelve tone technique |
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west germany |
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world history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Appreciation -- Europe
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| SUBJECT |
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 fast |
| Subject |
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Art appreciation
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013048526 |
| ISBN |
9780520957701 |
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0520957709 |
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1306417155 |
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9781306417150 |
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