Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

ISBN-13: 9781107116474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 251 str.

Amy Lynn Wlodarski

Opis

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

Recenzje

'Musicologist Amy Lynn Wlodarski's debut monograph contributes a tremendous intervention to Holocaust witness, memory, and trauma studies. … The strength of this book lies in Wlodarski's generative contextualization and assessment of her archival findings (especially in the case of Reich's Different Trains), as well as her meticulous deconstruction and synthesis of vast and interdisciplinary literature collections. … Despite its deceptively compact nature, Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation is formidably detailed and persuasively delivered. It deservedly won the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society for most outstanding book. … With its engaging argument about the aesthetics and ethics of musical witness creations, Wlodarski's monograph provides an [indispensable] scholarly model for analyzing the artistic shocks that follow traumatic events.' Samantha M. Cooper, Musica Judaica Online Reviews

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The composer as witness: Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw; 2. The philosopher as witness: Theodor Adorno's A Survivor from Warsaw; 3. The composer as witness: Hanns Eisler's Nuit et Brouillard; 4. The state as witness: Jüdische Chronik in the German Democratic Republic; 5. The composer as witness: Steve Reich's Different Trains; Epilogue.