Introduction

Abstract

When the Civic Bureau of Music and Art in Los Angeles published a brochure in 1929 titled Culture and the Community, its members waxed eloquent over the endless cultural amenities of the region.1 The list was impressive, and ranged from painting and architecture to music and drama, leaving almost no field of the arts untouched. The message was clear: Los Angeles had become a major cultural metropolis. Writer Carey McWilliams criticized the brochure as mere fodder for tourists, stating that members of the Civic Bureau “will meet each incoming Southern Pacific train with stacks of ‘Culture and the Community’ to distribute along with ‘Los Angeles: The White Spot of the Nation’.”2 Yet the Civic Bureau did have a point: The enormous diversity of achievements in expressive culture in Los Angeles over the past several decades was evidence that its residents had not been idle under the southern California sun.3

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