Arnold Schoenberg's a Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Volume 17

by Joy H. Calico

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520281861
• ISBN13: 9780520281868
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"