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Julie Brown is Associate Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published articles and books on early twentieth-century music, including Bartok and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music (2007); her edited collection Western Music and Race (2007) was awarded the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award (2008). She also publishes on screen music, with an increasing specialism in the sonic dimension of early film exhibition: she is contributing editor (with Annette Davison) of The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (2013).'This book reopens the subject of Jewish culture in the life and work of the twentieth-century classical composer Arnold Schoenberg … [it] draws on the writings of Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger, providing a welcome reintroduction of his work into musicological research. Above all, the author shows a remarkable ability to negotiate the shifting sands of Schoenberg's thought in an authoritative manner, not an easy task … this stimulating book should be available to all who are interested in European culture …' M. Dineen, Choice
'… Schoenberg and Redemption offers important evidence with highly believable postulations … this is an important book that deserves a wide readership …' Michael Haas, Times Literary Supplement
'Julie Brown's Schoenberg and Redemption newly testifies to the power of a composer's self-expressive prose … Bringing to light two previously [understudied] writings of Schoenberg, Julie Brown presents an absorbing view of his turn to atonality … Brown records a history of Schoenberg's modernist invention, and in the process, adds to Wagner's legacy too.' Victoria Aschheim, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association