UID:
almahu_9947413831902882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316337400 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Music since 1900
Content:
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and critical receptions. The study examines works composed in a variety of musical languages – from Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic A Survivor from Warsaw to Steve Reich's minimalist Different Trains – and situates them within interdisciplinary discussions about the aesthetics and ethics of artistic witness. At the heart of this book are important questions about how music interacts with language and history; memory and trauma; politics and mourning. Wlodarski's detailed musical and cultural analyses provide new models for the assessment of the genre, illustrating the benefits and consequences of musical Holocaust representation in the second half of the twentieth century.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The composer as witness : Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw -- The philosopher as witness : Theodor Adorno's A survivor from Warsaw -- The composer as witness : Hanns Eisler's Nuit et brouillard -- The state as witness : Jüdische Chronik in the German Democratic Republic -- The composer as witness : Steve Reich's Different trains.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107116474
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316337400