Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism

Kenneth H. Marcus is Professor of History and Chair of the International Studies Program at the University of La Verne, California. An historian, musician and composer, he has published over forty articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and book reviews, and has recorded CDs of music for piano, guitar, voice, and organ. His two previous books are Musical Metropolis: Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture, 1880–1940 (2004) and Politics of Power: Elites of an Early Modern State in Germany (2000). In spring 2013, he was Fulbright Senior Professor in American Culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

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).