Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

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Wlodarski Amy Lynn
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9781107116474
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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; and 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.
EAN 9781107116474
ISBN 1107116473
Binding Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date July 9, 2015
Pages 251
Language English
Dimensions 253 x 181 x 18
Country United Kingdom
Readership Tertiary Education
Authors Wlodarski Amy Lynn
Illustrations 15 Printed music items; 7 Tables, black and white
Series Music since 1900