Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781107652491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 421 str.

Kenneth H. Marcus

Opis

Kenneth H. Marcus shows how Schoenberg played a vital role in Southern California Modernism through his pedagogy, compositions, and texts.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Modernism in Southern California, 1913–44: 1. Early Modernism in Southern California, 1913–33; 2. Hollywood and exile; 3. The road to Westwood: from USC to UCLA; Part II. The Private and Public Spheres, 1936–51: 4. The private world of Schoenberg; 5. Judaism revisited: Schoenberg's Jewish works; 6. War, nationalism, and anticommunism; 7. Troubles in paradise: the final years; Conclusion; Appendices: 1. List of works in exile, 1934–50; 2. Text to Arnold Schoenberg, Kol Nidre, Op. 39; 3. Text to Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46; 4. Text to Arnold Schoenberg, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41 by Lord Byron; 5. Bertolt Brecht, letter and poem, 'Und in eurem Lande?', to Arnold Schoenberg for his 68th birthday (1942).