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Article: Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture.
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Edited by Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [xviii, 232 p. ISBN 0-520-20314-3. $42.]
What was Arnold Schoenberg's influence on twentieth-century culture? How did events and ideas shape Schoenberg's music and aesthetic? How did the cultural centers of Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles contribute to the formation of a composer like Schoenberg? These were some of the questions posed by a 1991 conference at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles. The resulting interdisciplinary contributions emphasized historical, cultural, and sociological issues over music analysis. The editors of Constructive Dissonance met the ...