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Musical witness and Holocaust representation

By Adorno , Amy , Theodor W.; Wlodarski

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107116473, 978-1-107-11647-4, 978-1-107-53884-9, 110753884X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3662910 bytes)
Series
Music since 1900
Pages
237\256
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Искусство и искусствоведение;Музыкальное искусство

Description

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

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