Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism

Contents

• 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).